Salome (disciple)

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Salome was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and at greater length in apocryphal writings. Mark names her among the women present at the crucifixion and as one of the Myrrhbearers who found the empty tomb. Later interpretation identified her with women mentioned but not named elsewhere in the gospels, most often the wife of Zebedee and mother of the apostles James and John, and sometimes with the unnamed sister of Jesus's mother in John 19:25, which would make her Jesus's aunt. Non-canonical texts treat her more prominently, and several describe her as a disciple rather than a follower: she is named among Jesus's disciples in the Gospel of Thomas and questions him directly in the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians, where the exchange implies a tradition that she was childless. A Salome also appears in the Protevangelium of James as the woman who doubts and then attests the virgin birth, a figure often identified with the disciple from the High Middle Ages onwards...

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