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Pontius Pilate

By Ann , Pilate , Pontius;Wroe

Book information

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library
Year
2000
ISBN
9780375505201, 0375505202
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
731 kB (748715 bytes)
Pages
xv, 412 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 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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