
Pontius Pilate
The foil to Jesus, the defiant antihero of the Easter story, mocking, skeptical Pilate is a historical figure who haunts our imagination. For some he is a saint, for others the embodiment of human weakness, an archetypal politician willing to sacrifice one man for the sake of stability. In this dazzlingly conceived biography, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to...
Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; Reprint edition (March 6, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375753974
ISBN-13: 978-0375753978
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1222338
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“let us be frank. This is not a biography of Pontius Pilate,since as the author readily acknowledges and demonstrates there is little extent primary sources. What this book is a curiously entertaining reflection of WWWWW of the man's life and times. I...”
life. Working from classical sources, she plunges us into the world of biblical Judaea under the reign of the erratic and licentious emperor Tiberius and lets us see the trial of Jesus, in all its confusion, from the point of view of his executioner.
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