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HERODIAS

(Gk. Hērōdiás)

The daughter of Aristobulus and Berenice. Herodias married her uncle, possibly Philip II, and bore him a daughter named Salome (Josephus Ant. 18.5.4 [136]). When Herod Antipas, her husband’s half-brother, visited them in 29 c.e., he persuaded Herodias to divorce her husband and marry him (Ant. 18.5.1 [110]). John the Baptist criticized their marriage (Matt. 14:3-5; Mark 6:17-18) because Jewish law forbade a man to marry his brother’s wife (Lev. 18:16, 20; 20:21) except in levirate marriage (Deut. 25:5). Angered at John’s intrusion, Herodias advised her daughter to request his execution as her reward for pleasing Antipas with her dancing (Matt. 14:6-12; Mark 6:21-28). Herodias might have been just devious and cruel (Ant. 18.7.1 [240-44]), or she may function to excuse Antipas for John’s death.

Bibliography. J. C. Anderson, “Feminist Criticism: The Dancing Daughter,” in Mark and Method, ed. J. C. Anderson and S. D. Moore (Minneapolis, 1992), 103-34.

Emily Cheney






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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