"... The aspect I wish to draw attention to, however, is that Salome is punished in that part of her body that she used to commit the sinful act, her hand. This idea is also well attested elsewhere. For example, in the Testament of Gad 5:9-11 we read the following statement by Gad ... Wisdom of Solomon 11:16 says: 'Those things through which a man sins, through them he is punished'. And in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 44:10, God says: 'To every man there will be such a punishment that in whatever sin he shall have sinned, in this he will be judged'. One could quote many more examples from Jewish pseudepigrapha (e.g. Jubilees 48:14) and also from rabbinic literature (e.g. Mishnah, Sotah 1:7-9; Tosefta, Sotah 3-4; Mekhilta, Be-Shalach 6) to illustrate that the principle of retaliation from the Torah (Exodus 21:23; Leviticus 24:18; Deuteronomy 19:21) was still very much adhered to. But this was the case not only in Jewish but also in Christian literature from the early centuries, witness not only our passage on Salome, but also several Christian apocalyptic writings from late antiquity ..."