Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

The story in Matthew’s gospel, that the rumor of a new-born king produced a violent reaction, feels typical of Herod: just in ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the ...

The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.

Perhaps the personification of materialism in the time of Jesus was in the person of King Herod, called "The Great." There ...

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born ...

Massacre of the Innocents, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567 © Royal collection, Windsor Castle, Acquired by Charles II from ...

This is the person we know as Herod the Great. For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political factor. Although they might not have seen Romans on a day-to ...

Matthew 2:14-15 The story of the newborn Jesus’ family fleeing their homeland into Egypt to escape the wrath of monstrous King Herod the Great is an integral part of the Christian narrative I gr ...