Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory [Hardcover]

A fresh perspective&and, in the process, offers new insights into the final days of Jesus&Schiavones account nicely lures Pilate out of the shadows, albeit briefly, even providing a measure of rehabilitation.In this slender, elegantly translated work geared towardlay readers, Schiavone navigates between memoryby the four writers of theGospels, especially John, the closest to the context of first century PalestineandhistoryJosephus and Philo of Alexandria, two first-century intellectualstohelp in the reconstruction of these contested events . . . . A levelheaded,engaging reading of the Gospels and historical account that forms a solid senseof this pivotal personage and his role on the epic stage.A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.