A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

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On June 24 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of Agios Ioannis the Baptist and Forerunner.

God has eternally had the plan of salvation as part of his sovereign purposes ...

S ince Hollywood's Golden Age, Western movies have been among the best in cinema, from epics like Tombstone to genre-bending ...

For instance, at almost exactly the time of the birth of Jesus (4-6 B.C.), some Jews became fed up with the Jewish King Herod ...

PHILLIPS'S "HEROD" ACTED AT THE LYRIC; A Production of Great Pictorial Beauty of a Notable Tragedy. LAST ACT MOST IMPRESSIVE In It Mr. Faversham Redeems Earlier Shortcomings -- Miss Opp's Artistic ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

Josephus describes Herod’s suffering as “the penalty that God was exacting of the king for his great impiety”—a tyrant’s death. As the story goes, Herod feared that he would have to ...

During Hurston’s lifetime, at least three major publishers passed on “The Life of Herod the Great,” and after she died the manuscript was partially burned by workers cleaning out her house.

Zora Neale Hurston’s final work, saved from a fire, is a flawed gem. More than 60 years after her death, Hurston’s unfinished novel “The Life of Herod the Great” showcases her passion for ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her death. The novel expands on her interest in the ancient king of Judea.