Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s ...

King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after hearing that the ...

The real baddie, looming up behind the whole narrative, is King Herod. Modern scholars know quite a lot about Herod the Great, mostly because of the Judaean historian Flavius Josephus, who had ...

He was troubled. That’s what it says. King Herod was troubled, and the people were troubled with him. It doesn’t say why, not exactly. But piece it together. What makes a leader insecure? What ...

Opinion: Leslie Herod subjected to racist, sexist tropes, perpetuated by journalists who should know better Scrutiny of Herod’s management style is something no other candidate faced ...

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) spent her financially distressed final decade enthralled by the life of King Herod and working on a novel about him. The books of the 1930s and ’40s that made her ...

A new novel by Zora Neale Hurston reimagines the biblical King Herod In the soon-to-be-published “The Life of Herod the Great,” Zora Neale Hurston reframes one of the Bible’s greatest villains.

The Bible warns us against tyrants such as King Herod — men who believe themselves gods — while reminding us that they fail before the True King.

‘Herod the Great’ Review: Rome’s Man in Jerusalem Despite rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem, the client king of Judea owed his rule to Roman power and was loathed by many of his subjects.

What a medieval 12 Days of Christmas looks like, from porpoises to bloody Herod games After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities ...

(THE CONVERSATION) King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after ...

Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth.