S01 E06: "The Real King Herod" - King Herod is one of the Bible’s most evil characters. Now, new archaeological discoveries and 3D CGI reveal why he was known as “Herod the Great.” ...

But a king’s one decision can also bring misery to tens, hundreds, thousands or even millions of people. Here is a historical example. Herod was the Roman-appointed King of Judea when a baby boy ...

In The Life of Herod the Great, the titular king’s advisers and subjects alike ... Born into a Baptist family in 1891, Hurston learned about the Bible from her father, John Hurston, who served ...

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 ...

They returned home by another road as God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule for them as Judea’s king ...

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 ...

Hurston, whose father was a minister, had long been interested in liberating Jewish history from the Bible ... eventually named king of Judea by Marc Antony in 40 B.C. King Herod the Great ...

Indeed Christianity's links with Africa started nearly two thousand years ago, just weeks after the birth of Jesus when according to the bible, the holy family fled the wrath of King Herod.