The all-consuming subject? “The life story of HEROD THE GREAT,” she wrote. “You have no idea the great amount of research that I have done on this man.” Hurston believed that history had shortchanged ...
In Zora Neal Hurston’s last years, the African American novelist and anthropologist worked on a biographical novel of Herod that drew on what she called “obsessive” research, creating a world that ...
Readings: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Colossians 3:12-21 or 3:12-17 Mt 2:13-15, 19-23 History calls him Herod the Great, but no one could call him a family man. To gain the Judean throne through a second, ...