Title:
The life of Herod the Great : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with commentary by Deborah G. Plant.
ISBN:
9780063161009
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
©2025
Physical Description:
xxvii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Editor's note -- Preface -- Introduction -- Antipater and his sons -- Herod, the Over-Bold -- The accused -- New moon over Judea -- Herod at home -- Voice from the past -- General Herod -- Test of the metal -- The road to Rome -- Home again -- Herod at Jerusalem -- King of Judea -- Mariamne accused -- Trial of Mariamne -- Games, gold, generosity -- Love again for Herod Magnus -- Herod builds -- Return of the two princes -- Reunion in Iona -- Epilogue: Back upon the grille -- Commentary: A story finally told -- A note from the cover artist.
Summary:
"In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel about one of the most infamous figures in the Bible, Herod the Great. In Hurston's retelling, Herod is not the wicked ruler of the New Testament who is charged with the 'slaughter of the innocents,' but a forerunner of Christ--a beloved king who enriched Jewish culture and brought prosperity and peace to Judea. From the peaks of triumph to the depths of human misery, the historical Herod 'appears to have been singled out and especially endowed to attract the lightning of fate,' Hurston writes. An intimate of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the Judean king lived during the first century BCE, in a time of war and imperial expansion that was rife with political assassinations and bribery, as the old world gave way to the new." -- Publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1432782415
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