Salome Alexandra

Salome Alexandra
Salome Alexandra
	Salome Alexandra, from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Queen of Judaea
Reign	c. 76 – 67 BC
Predecessor	Alexander Jannaeus
Successor	Hyrcanus II
Queen consort of Judaea
Tenure	c. 104–76 BC
Spouse	Aristobulus I (c. 104–103 BC), Alexander Jannaeus (c. 103 – 76 BC), then widow after.
Issue	Hyrcanus II; Aristobulus II
Father	Shetah (disputed)
Religion	Judaism

Salome Alexandra, or Shlomtzion (Greek: Σαλώμη Ἀλεξάνδρα; Hebrew: שְׁלוֹמְצִיּוֹן‎, Šəlōmṣīyyōn, "peace of Zion"; 141–67 BC),^[1] was (until Golda Meir) one of only three women to rule over Judea, the other two being Athaliah and Deborah. The wife of Aristobulus I, and afterward of Alexander Jannaeus,^[2] she was the last regnant queen of Judea, and the last ruler of Judea to die as the sovereign of an independent kingdom.

^ Atkinson, Kenneth (2012). Queen Salome: Jerusalem's Warrior Monarch of the First Century B.C. US: McFarland. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7864-7002-0.
^ That Alexandra, the widow of Aristobulus I, was identical with the one who married his brother Alexander Jannaeus is nowhere explicitly stated by Josephus, who, it is generally inferred, took it for granted that the latter performed the levirate marriage prescribed by the law for the widow of a childless brother deceased.

[1] Atkinson, Kenneth (2012). Queen Salome: Jerusalem's Warrior Monarch of the First Century B.C. US: McFarland. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7864-7002-0.

[2] That Alexandra, the widow of Aristobulus I, was identical with the one who married his brother Alexander Jannaeus is nowhere explicitly stated by Josephus, who, it is generally inferred, took it for granted that the latter performed the levirate marriage prescribed by the law for the widow of a childless brother deceased.

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