This year, the conference organizers asked participants to study different texts that describe the death of a mystery figure from history (who turned out to be King Herod), and come up with an ...

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 ...

Hurston wasn’t drowning in the pelagic waters of tragedy; instead, she was refining the stories that ethnic groups had created, revised, and transmitted. She surely would have agreed with William ...

(As Kasher notes in his biography, "Herod the Great" was, for the Jews, an ironic title, designating an arrogant monarch who scorned the religious laws of his own people.) Within two weeks of ...

They had to ask. Herod the Great, King of Judea, felt threatened when the Magi—wise men from the East—arrived in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?

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 were several successive King Herods in a dynastic family that ruled ...

“Herod the king in his raging ... Historians know that this king built great cities and strong fortresses, the ruins of which still stand today, yet all his accomplishments seem hidden ...

Leslie Herod is a Democratic Colorado state Representative in district 8. Herod lists their occupation as Legislator. Visit Herod's profile page on leg.state.co.us, and email Herod at ...