Salom (Hastings' Dictionary)

A Greek form (SaXii/i) of the name Khallu.m (ciW). Us only application in EV is to Salom, the father of IlUkiali, Bar 1'. 8AL0ME(2aX(i;[ii)).—l. The daughter of Herodiaa, Mt 14^-'=, Mk 6", ; see Herod, vol. ii. pp. 355, 300. 2. A woman present at the crucifixion, Mk 15*°, and afterwards a visitor at the sepulchre, Mk 10'. The comparison of the former passage with Mt 27°' leaves little doubt that aiie was also the wife of Zebedee, and, if bo, she figures in the incident of Mt 2iJ»-='.

Nothing else is known of her, though there are many conjectures, of which the principal is that she was a sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In support of that view may be cited a reading of the Peshitta version of Jn 10^ (cf. also the Jerus. Syr. lectionary), and a presumptive unlikelihood, on account of the BimUarity of the names, that Mary the wife of Clopas was a sister of the mother of Jesus.

James and John would thus Ije the cousins of Jesus, and the silence of the NT as to so close a relationship becomes significant. ' Many other women ' were present at the crucifixion, Sik 15" ; and amongst these unnamed disciples must probably be sought the sister of Mary, tlie identification with Salome being precarious in the extreme, and sustained by no real evidence. See, further, art. Mauy, vol. iiL p. 278 f. K. W. Moss.