| ISBN |
9781631492358 (hardback) |
| Name |
Schiavone, Aldo author. |
| Title |
Pontius Pilate : deciphering a memory / Aldo Schiavone ; translated by Jeremy Carden. |
| Published |
New York Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] |
| ©2017 |
| Description |
238 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Notes |
"Originally published in Italian as Ponzio Pilato: un enigma tra storia e memoria"--Title page verso. |
| Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Night in the month of Nisan -- Roman Judaea and the work of the fifth prefect -- God and Caesar -- The destiny of the prisoner -- Into the darkness -- Sources and historiography. |
| Summary |
The renowned classicist presents a revisionist portrait of Pontius Pilate that reconstructs the social, religious, and political climates behind his fateful encounters with Jesus. Against this historical backdrop, this book offers a dramatic reexamination of Pilate and Jesus’s moment of contact, indicating what was likely said between them and identifying lines of dialogue in the Gospels that are arguably fictive. This book shows how certain gestures and utterances have had inestimable consequences over the years. What emerges is a humanizing portrait of Pilate that reveals how he reacted in the face of an almost impossible dilemma: on one hand wishing to spare Jesus’s life and on the other hoping to satisfy the Jewish priests who demanded his execution. Simultaneously exploring Jesus’s own thought process, the author reaches a stunning conclusion one that has never previously been argued about Pilate’s intuitions regarding Jesus. While we know almost nothing about what came before or after, for a few hours on the eve of the Passover Pilate deliberated over a fate that would spark an entirely new religion and lift up a weary prisoner forever as the Son of God. Groundbreaking in its analysis and evocative in its narrative exposition, this is an absorbing portrait of a man who has been relegated to the borders of history and legend for over two thousand years. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Italian. |
| Subjects |
Jesus Christ |
| Pilate, Pontius, -- active 1st century |
| Pilate, Pontius, -- active 1st century |
| Jesus Christ -- Trial |
| Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion |
| Biographies |
| Crucifixion of Jesus Christ |
| Governors |
| Trial of Jesus Christ |
| BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical |
| Governors -- Palestine -- Biography |
| Middle East -- Palestine |
| Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D. |
| Genre |
Biographies |
| Biography |
| History |
| Biographies |
| Other Names |
Carden, Jeremy translator. |
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