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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 85 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALOME , in Jewish See also:

history the name See also:borne by several See also:women of the See also:Herod See also:dynasty. (I) See also:Sister of Herod the See also:Great, who became the wife successively of See also:Joseph, Herod's See also:uncle, Costobar, See also:governor of See also:Idumaea, and a certain Alexas. (2) Daughter of Herod by-See also:SALONICA 8 5 Elpis, his eighth wife. (3) Daughter of Herodias by her first See also:husband Herod See also:Philip. She was the wife successively of Philip the See also:Tetrarch and See also:Aristobulus, son of Herod of See also:Chalcis. This Salome is the only one of the three who is mentioned in the New Testament (Matt. xiv. 3 sqq.; See also:Mark vi. 17 sqq.) and only in connexion with the See also:execution of See also:John the Baptist. Herod Antipas, pleased by her dancing, offered her a See also:reward " unto the See also:half of my See also:kingdom "; instructed by Herodias, she asked for John the Baptist's " See also:head in a charger "1 (see HEROD H. ANTIPAS). Salome is also the name of one of the women who are mentioned as See also:present at the Crucifixion (Mark xv. 40), and afterwards in the See also:Sepulchre (xvi.

I). Comparison with Matt. See also:

xxvii. 56 suggests that she was also the wife of Zebedee (cf. Matt. xx. 20-23). It is further conjectured that she was a sister of See also:Mary the See also:mother of Jesus, in which See also:case See also:James and John would be See also:cousins of Jesus. In the See also:absence of specific See also:evidence any such See also:identification must be regarded with suspicion.

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