Pilate

Ann Wroe

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English

Vintage
07 April 2000

Biography: historical, political & military; General & world history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Religion & beliefs; The Early Church

Anne Wroe's extraordinary and compelling biography of a very elusive figure.

Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling and getting around the law, and the wriggling modern pragmatist, whose dilemma over Jesus has been described by Tony Blair as 'a timeless parable of political life'. This is also the story of the man Pilate might have been; and the man who mirrors us. Ann Wroe shows how, in his struggles with fate and free will, Pilate's story has also become the story of ourselves.

By: Ann Wroe
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 288g
ISBN: 9780099287933
ISBN 10: 0099287935
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 07 April 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Pilate

The subtitle of Wroe's splendid biography of Pontius Pilate reveals a profound truth and is a meticulous and eloquent description of the way Pilate has been perceived in history, literature and legend during the last 2000 years. For it has indeed been an 'invention'. The well-meaning Pilate of the Gospels bears little relation to the brutal portrait given by Philo of Alexandria, an older contemporary of Jesus Christ. Later tales become even more fanciful, demonstrating a blithe disregard for facts but an intense interest in the meaning of Jesus's trial and condemnation by the Roman governor of Judea. In the course of this account of a developing fantasy, the reader discovers in a new way that evil and good are often deeply and mysteriously complementary; that religion has little to do with history as we understand it today; and that Christianity's success as a world faith is due to the mythos of Jesus's death and resurrection depicting a timeless truth, which each generation has been able to apply to its own circumstances. Review by KAREN ARMSTRONG Editor's note: Karen Armstrong is the author of A History of God. (Kirkus UK)