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john9221

e female from a Roman standpoint and a Maccabean standpoint (her bloodline was matriarchal). She had to be dutiful, respectful, and learn at her mother's knee, an important custom amongst the Maccabean women. She was a good kid. So, she couldn't have been a teenager and allowed to perform. It would diminish her future value in the marriage market, Roman or otherwise, and it would have been a sin. I would opine she had to be less than Nadia Comaneci's age when she blew away the Olympic judges in 1976, but she was probably just as agile.It's probable that Herodias recognized her daughter's agility long before the banquet, for kids have a tendency to display what they're good at long before there's a use for the tendency. It could have been a genetic throwback to the time before the Maccabees were promoted to highborn, the time when the men were just about the best guerilla fighters in Judea and found the mountainous regions around Judea excellent terrain to entice their foes into combat. She was probably proud of this tendency and savvy enough to see a utilization for her own good. This also pre-supposes that Herodias might have had more contact in Salome's upbringing than Roman highborn mothers or that there was a lot of contact between high