Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man

Wroe, Ann

ISBN 10: 0224059424 / ISBN 13: 9780224059428

Edité par Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

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First Edition Second Impression. Black Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, pages slightly age toned, else fine. 381 pages all in fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition, minor rubbing to extremities, else fine. Not price Clipped.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224059424
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224059428
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition second impression
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The facts about Pontius Pilate are very few. We don't know when he was born or when he died. We know nothing of his career before he became Govenor of Judea, and nothing of what happened to him after he was recalled by Tiberius. Some say he came from Rome, others from Spain or Germany. Everyone - from the evangelists to the writers of the medieval mystery plays - has his own Pilate, each symbolic of something, each a projection of his own ideas and anxieties. This extraordinary book is all about our Pilates, real, half-real and invented. Some are familiar, some surprising. They have depths and contrasts that are unexpected. They do remarkable things. Among these surprises, perhaps, are the glimpses we get of a man actually walking on a marble floor in Caesarea, feeling his shoes pinch, clicking his fingers for a slave, while the clouds of lasting infamy gather over his head.

À propos de l?auteur

Ann Wroe is the American editor of The Economist, and was formerly its literary editor. She is the author of Lives, Lies and the Iran-Contra Affair and A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town.