The Life of Herod the Great Zora Neale Hurston (Author) + Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by) Binding:Paperback Caught between the world she Caught between the world she longs for and the one she's left behind One of the "new things" she tried was a vegan challenge Scholar Editor Deborah Plant's "Commentary: A Story Finally Told" assesses Hurston's pioneering work and underscores Hurston's perspective that the first century BCE has much to teach us and that the lens through which to view this dramatic and stirring era is the life and times of Herod the Great in a time of war and imperial expansion that was rife with political assassinations and bribery