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Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...
More than 60 years after her death, Hurston’s unfinished novel “The Life of Herod the Great” showcases her passion for her ...
Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?
Paul Devlin on “The Life of Herod the Great,” by Zora Neale Hurston.
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 ...
Natalie identifies with Barbe-Nicole’s struggles alone, but it is two French strangers who nudge her to find a way forward — ...
Close to Jaffa Street, at the entrance to the Russian Compound, lies an ancient giant pillar, still partially embedded in the ...
After 14 years of research, Hurston concluded that his most heinous act – the Massacre of the Innocents, as recorded in Matthew’s Gospel – did not actually take place, and that Herod ...
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 ...
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