Pontius Pilate - Hardcover

Wroe, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503056 ISBN 13: 9780375503054

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

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Reconstructed from classical sources, the man whom the gospels report stood trial over Jesus is revealed as a fairly average Roman administrator mythologized by two thousand years of Christian history. 25,000 first printing.

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te arrived in Judaea in the year 26, sent to collect taxes and oversee the firm establishment of Roman law. His ten-year term was a time of relative peace in this fractious new outpost of the Roman Empire, where violence was not uncommon. He was not loved and not quite feared, and might have vanished into obscurity had he not come to preside, with some reluctance, over the most famous trial in history.

In this brilliant biography, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and a masterpiece of scholarship and imagination, Ann Wroe brings Pilate and his world to life. Working from classical sources, she reconstructs his origins and upbringing, his career in the military and life in Rome, his confrontation with Christ, and his long journey home. We catch glimpses of him pacing the marble floors in Caesarea, sharpening his stylus, getting dressed shortly before sunrise on the day that would seal his place in history. What were the pressures on Pilate that day? What did he really think of Jesus?

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503056
• ISBN 13: 9780375503054
• Einband: Tapa dura