Salome: Her Life and Work
Worth buying if: You enjoy classical biography that centers late-antique texts and inscriptions.
Skip it if: You want a novelized or highly speculative life of Salome rather than source-based analysis.
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Summary
Livingstone combines primary sources, art history, and literary readings to retell Salome's life and cultural afterlives across late antique texts and visual art in a concise 255-page study.
Why this book now
Revisit Salome's tangled reputation with Livingstone's 1987 scholarship as modern debates about gender, performance, and historical mythmaking continue.
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- You enjoy classical biography that centers late-antique texts and inscriptions.
- You read Angela Livingstone's close readings of art and literary evidence.
- You want a novelized or highly speculative life of Salome rather than source-based analysis.
- You expect a recent survey of film and contemporary pop depictions beyond Livingstone's 1987 scope.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780918825612
Worth buying if: You enjoy classical biography that centers late-antique texts and inscriptions.
Skip it if: You want a novelized or highly speculative life of Salome rather than source-based analysis.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At roughly 255 pages, this focused general-interest scholarly book requires steady, attentive reading but fits into several dedicated evenings or a weekend of study.
What stands out here
This Moyer Bell Ltd edition foregrounds Livingstone's archival approach—close translational work and art-historical comparison—rather than modern reinterpretations.
Best way to approach it
Approach the book with a notebook for source citations and images; read chapters sequentially to follow Livingstone's reconstruction of Salome across texts and art.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780918825612
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