Re: Either or, neither nor...

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Nathan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Well, this isn't quite that. But I was listening to "Should" t'other day
> and heard "should I never dance like Salome danced" and thought, oo,
> who's Salome again? I really *hoped* it wasn't the girl who danced for
> Herod and got John the Baptist's head as her reward (is this why I'm
> wary of concertizing?). And I hoped it wasn't her, cause what a cool
> idea and one I could put to some serious good use. But to my
> disappointment, that was the correct Biblical reference . . .

FWIW, though, the Bible itself never calls her Salome.  We know that that
is the name of Herodias' daughter because Josephus tells us so.

Just another fun little bit of trivia, there.

(Comparing and contrasting Josephus and the Gospels on the subject of John
the Baptist and Herod Antipas can be rather intriguing, BTW.)

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