Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory - Couverture rigide

Schiavone, Aldo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1631492357 ISBN 13 : 9781631492358

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017

Synopsis

"[Aldo Schiavone] offers new insights into the final days of Jesus...The result is a history still being contested all these centuries later. Schiavone's account nicely lures Pilate out of the shadows, albeit briefly, even providing a measure of rehabilitation." The New York Times

The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect Pontius Pilate. Presiding over the trial and execution of Jesus, Pilate is a figure who has straddled history and legend for over two thousand years. Now, Aldo Schiavone presents a comprehensive, revisionist biography of Pilate that meticulously reconstructs the social, religious and political context in which his fateful encounter with Jesus took place.

Drawing on a wealth of original research, Schiavone weaves together the sources, from epigraphs to the Gospels, from Josephus to Tacitus and Philon, to create a portrait that approaches its subject as if for the first time, without any other intent than to try to explain what happened.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aldo Schiavonne is the author of Spartacus and was a professor of Roman law at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, which he founded. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he lives in Rome. Jeremy Carden lived in Italy from 1987 to 2014. Now based in the UK, he works as a freelance translator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631492357
• ISBN 13: 9781631492358
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible