In the New Testament, Salome was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in apocryphal writings.

She is named by Mark as present at the crucifixion and as one of the Myrrhbearers, the women who found Jesus's empty tomb.

[3] "Salome" may be the Hellenized form of a Hebrew name derived from the root word שָׁלוֹם‎ (shalom), meaning "peace".

In the Gospel of Mark, Salome is among the women who went to Jesus' tomb to anoint his body with spices.

However, feminist critiques have argued that the mainstream tradition consistently underplays the significance of Jesus's female supporters.

[6] The Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi mentions among the "disciples" of Jesus two women, Salome and Mary.

[7] The Diatessaron, which is part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers collection, separates Salome and the mother of the sons of Zebedee as two distinct persons, contrary to tradition that identify them.

A 2nd-century Greek, Celsus, wrote a True Discourse attacking the Christian sects as a threat to the Roman state.

[9] An apocryphal Coptic Book of the Resurrection of Christ, attributed to the apostle Bartholomew, names the women who went to the tomb.

[11][12] She is commemorated in The Episcopal Church on 3 August, as listed in Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2022 as: "Joanna, Mary, and Salome, Myrrh-Bearing Women.

[18][19] For some centuries, religious art throughout Germany and the Low Countries frequently presented Saint Anne with her husbands, daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren as a group known as the Holy Kinship.

During the Reformation the idea of the three husbands was rejected by Protestants, and by the Council of Trent by Catholic theologians also, but Salome continued to be regarded as probably the sister of the Virgin Mary, and the wife of Zebedee, and mother of the two apostles.

[3] The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 said (rather more cautiously than leading 19th-century Protestant books of biblical reference) that "some writers conjecture more or less plausibly that she is the sister of the Blessed Virgin mentioned in John 19:25".