Ἡρῳδιάς

Ἡρῳδιάς, άδος, ἡ (for the sp. s. Ἡρῴδης) Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great (Ἡρῴδης 1), daughter of his son Aristobulus, mother-in-law of Philip the tetrarch who married her daughter Salome (q.v.), and, before her marriage to Herod Antipas, the wife of another Herod, the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II (Jos., Ant. 17, 14; Schürer I 321) and half-brother of Herod Antipas (Jos., Ant. 18, 109f). In Mk 6:17 and Mt 14:3 (except D) this first husband of Herodias is called (some hold erroneously) Philip; cp. Mt 14:6; Mk 6:19; Lk 3:19. In Mk 6:22 ῾Η. is a daughter of Herod; on the problem of the rdg. in N. s. RBorger, TRu 52, ’87, 25–27. S. also HHoehner, Herod Antipas ’72, 110–71.—Schürer I 344–50; WLillie, Salome or Herodias?: ET 65, ’53f, 251; MStern, The Jewish People in the First Century ’74, 284ff; HHoehner, ISBE II, ’82, 695.