In his jewish antiquities, josephus mentions marriages and children of the daughter of herodias named salome. There are two women named salome in the bible, but only one is mentioned by that name The righteous salome was the wife of zebedee (matthew 27:56), the mother of the disciples james and john, and a female follower of jesus. Salome, daughter of herodias and stepdaughter of the tetrarch herod antipas She was the immediate agent in the execution of john the baptist, who had condemned her mother’s marriage to herod. Explore the biblical account of salome, a figure closely tied to jesus and the early christian community
Understand who was salome in the bible. Salome is the daughter of herodias, the wife of king herod She is unnamed in the biblical text but named by josephus in the jewish antiquities (18.5.4).
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