{"id":46,"date":"2022-11-08T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/thebibleandmusic\/chapter\/salome\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T23:53:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:53:16","slug":"salome","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/thebibleandmusic\/chapter\/salome\/","title":{"raw":"Salome","rendered":"Salome"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"salome\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">In this chapter you will<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"import-sbbl\">learn how an unnamed Bible character became the focus of literature and music (and, in the process, some controversy)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"import-sbbll\">reflect on why once again a romantic element has been introduced into a biblical story that lacks it<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p class=\"import-pf\">The role Salome is given in the New Testament is a minor one, where she is not even named, yet she and her story have been the focus of a significant amount of music. Salome is the name given to the daughter of Herodias who dances for Herod Antipas and then asks for John the Baptist\u2019s head on a platter. There is no hint in the biblical text of any kind of romantic attraction between her and John the Baptist, but elaborations on her story have sometimes added such an element. A great deal of attention has been focused on her in music, painting, and literature despite the relative paucity of material about her in the <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId479\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%2014%2CMark%206%2CLuke%209&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">New Testament Gospels<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-p\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId480\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-endless-grisly-fascination-of-richard-strauss-salome\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">Alex Ross\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> <a class=\"rId481\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-endless-grisly-fascination-of-richard-strauss-salome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"import-url-i\">New Yorker<\/em><\/a><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId482\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-endless-grisly-fascination-of-richard-strauss-salome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\"> article about Richard Strauss\u2019s opera<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Salome<\/em><\/span>, which is built directly from <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId483\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/opera-profile-strauss-salome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">Oscar Wilde\u2019s text<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> rather than a libretto, raises important questions about the <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId484\" href=\"https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/strauss-salome-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">composer\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> motives for setting that controversial work as well as the place of same-sex attraction and anti-Jewish sentiment in the context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wilde\u2019s story incorporates not just elements of the story of John the Baptist in the Gospels but <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId485\" href=\"https:\/\/holylit.wordpress.com\/salome-transformations-of-a-biblical-figure-in-art-and-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">language drawn from the Song of Songs<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> as well. You can <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId486\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kInyoCPyFb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">watch as well as listen to Strauss\u2019s entire opera<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> online.[footnote]This recording of a performance at the Fisher Center on Sunday, March 20, 2022, was provided to YouTube by the Bard Conservatory on their YouTube channel.[\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4rg7vPRD_68[\/embed]\r\n<p class=\"import-p\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt\">There is also a <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId488\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dVz2ipl3erY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">video with a complete score<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId489\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViLcRFqtTpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">another with piano reduction<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> for those who wish to dig into the written music. Wilde\u2019s story was <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId490\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bo8FSy393dQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">turned into a movie in 2013<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> with a <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId491\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffbeal.com\/works\/films\/wildesalome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">film score by Jeff Beal<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. The <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId492\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cvb4Bbxb5iU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">1953 movie<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> <a class=\"rId493\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cvb4Bbxb5iU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"import-url-i\">Salome<\/em><\/a> introduces romantic elements into the story that are different from Wilde\u2019s treatment. <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId494\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=niLHlFHzgLM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">The film score is by George Duning<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. One can also find copies of the 1923 silent movie <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Salome<\/em><\/span> on YouTube with various musical scores created to accompany it, as beginning film score composers often use silent films that are now in the public domain to illustrate their creative abilities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--key-takeaways\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">For Further Reading<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<p class=\"import-sbul hanging-indent\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;margin-right: 36pt\">G\u00e1lik, Mari\u00e1n. \u201cEchoes of the Biblical Shulamite and Wilde\u2019s Salome in Three Modern Chinese Plays.\u201d <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Monumenta Serica<\/em><\/span> 68, no. 1 (2020): 197\u2013225.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-sbul hanging-indent\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;margin-right: 36pt\">Gerrard, Carter. \u201cThe Shulamite of Sodom: Wilde\u2019s Subversion of the Song of Songs and the Birth of the Monstrous-Feminine.\u201d <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Miranda<\/em><\/span> 19 (2019). <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId495\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/miranda\/20560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/miranda\/20560<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-sbul hanging-indent\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;margin-right: 36pt\">Riquelme, J. P. \u201cShalom\/Solomon\/Salom\u00e9: Modernism and Wilde\u2019s Aesthetic Politics.\u201d <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Centennial Review<\/em><\/span> 39, no. 3 (1995): 575\u2013610.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"salome\">\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">In this chapter you will<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"import-sbbl\">learn how an unnamed Bible character became the focus of literature and music (and, in the process, some controversy)<\/li>\n<li class=\"import-sbbll\">reflect on why once again a romantic element has been introduced into a biblical story that lacks it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"import-pf\">The role Salome is given in the New Testament is a minor one, where she is not even named, yet she and her story have been the focus of a significant amount of music. Salome is the name given to the daughter of Herodias who dances for Herod Antipas and then asks for John the Baptist\u2019s head on a platter. There is no hint in the biblical text of any kind of romantic attraction between her and John the Baptist, but elaborations on her story have sometimes added such an element. A great deal of attention has been focused on her in music, painting, and literature despite the relative paucity of material about her in the <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId479\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%2014%2CMark%206%2CLuke%209&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">New Testament Gospels<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-p\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId480\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-endless-grisly-fascination-of-richard-strauss-salome\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">Alex Ross\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> <a class=\"rId481\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-endless-grisly-fascination-of-richard-strauss-salome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"import-url-i\">New Yorker<\/em><\/a><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId482\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-endless-grisly-fascination-of-richard-strauss-salome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\"> article about Richard Strauss\u2019s opera<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Salome<\/em><\/span>, which is built directly from <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId483\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/opera-profile-strauss-salome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">Oscar Wilde\u2019s text<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> rather than a libretto, raises important questions about the <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId484\" href=\"https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/strauss-salome-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">composer\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> motives for setting that controversial work as well as the place of same-sex attraction and anti-Jewish sentiment in the context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wilde\u2019s story incorporates not just elements of the story of John the Baptist in the Gospels but <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId485\" href=\"https:\/\/holylit.wordpress.com\/salome-transformations-of-a-biblical-figure-in-art-and-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">language drawn from the Song of Songs<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> as well. You can <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId486\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kInyoCPyFb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">watch as well as listen to Strauss\u2019s entire opera<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> online.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"This recording of a performance at the Fisher Center on Sunday, March 20, 2022, was provided to YouTube by the Bard Conservatory on their YouTube channel.\" id=\"return-footnote-46-1\" href=\"#footnote-46-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Bard Conservatory Orchestra presents: Salome\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4rg7vPRD_68?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"import-p\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt\">There is also a <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId488\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dVz2ipl3erY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">video with a complete score<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId489\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViLcRFqtTpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">another with piano reduction<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> for those who wish to dig into the written music. Wilde\u2019s story was <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId490\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bo8FSy393dQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">turned into a movie in 2013<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> with a <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId491\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffbeal.com\/works\/films\/wildesalome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">film score by Jeff Beal<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. The <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId492\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cvb4Bbxb5iU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">1953 movie<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> <a class=\"rId493\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cvb4Bbxb5iU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"import-url-i\">Salome<\/em><\/a> introduces romantic elements into the story that are different from Wilde\u2019s treatment. <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId494\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=niLHlFHzgLM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">The film score is by George Duning<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. One can also find copies of the 1923 silent movie <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Salome<\/em><\/span> on YouTube with various musical scores created to accompany it, as beginning film score composers often use silent films that are now in the public domain to illustrate their creative abilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--key-takeaways\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">For Further Reading<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<p class=\"import-sbul hanging-indent\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;margin-right: 36pt\">G\u00e1lik, Mari\u00e1n. \u201cEchoes of the Biblical Shulamite and Wilde\u2019s Salome in Three Modern Chinese Plays.\u201d <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Monumenta Serica<\/em><\/span> 68, no. 1 (2020): 197\u2013225.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-sbul hanging-indent\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;margin-right: 36pt\">Gerrard, Carter. \u201cThe Shulamite of Sodom: Wilde\u2019s Subversion of the Song of Songs and the Birth of the Monstrous-Feminine.\u201d <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><em class=\"import-i\">Miranda<\/em><\/span> 19 (2019). <span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><a class=\"rId495\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/miranda\/20560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"border: none windowtext 0pt;padding: 0\"><span class=\"import-url\">https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/miranda\/20560<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-sbul hanging-indent\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;margin-right: 36pt\">Riquelme, J. 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