A new study suggests that the Salome buried in this tomb was, in fact, not the apocryphal Biblical figure, but rather the younger sister of Judean king Herod the Great.

The study asserts that the Salome buried within the cave was Herod I’s younger sister, who died in approximately 10AD. This Salome is not to be confused with Herod I’s granddaughter who also ...

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the long-held belief that she was laid to rest there.

Men do not come off well in “Salome,” you’ve got King Herod for one thing and Salome’s dad who is weird and scenes with lewd men and little girls that make you not want to read the subtitles.

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

The Dance is Salome’s way of witnessing her own trauma, of showing Herod back to himself. He doesn’t get it, but we do.

This is a tad heavy-handed, but it doesn’t feel made up out of nowhere; Herod’s lust for Salome is explicit in the libretto, even if it’s not clear he’s acted on it.

NEW YORK — Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details ...

Instead, what’s truly shocking is the gradually unfolding suggestion of sexual abuse, culminating in the Dance of the Seven Veils, with which Salome demands that Herod give her the head of ...

NEW YORK – Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Every night I wake up with ...

Van den Heever made her Salome role debut in the 2022 Paris Opéra staging by Lydia Steier that transformed the dance into a gang rape. “The first couple of weeks I was really struggling,” she ...