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Article: What is the truth about Pilate? A quarterly look at books that ask the big questions.(Features)(Books)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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PONTIUS PILATE By Ann Wroe Random House 412 pp., $26.95
The Pontius Pilate we think we know," writes Ann Wroe, "is a mixture of dozens of invented men, each symbolic of something: the State facing the individual, the pagan world opposing the Christian one, skepticism versus truth, ourselves facing God.... He is the tyrant and oppressor, the implacable man of law, the perfect example of imperial authority; but also the grand equivocator, the modern democratic politician reading his polls and spinning his message, sliding from one expedient to the next.... Yet somewhere behind all this philosophy and fantasy lurks a flesh-and-blood Roman. And this world - this real ...
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Article: A compelling look at Pontius Pilate
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
April 27, 2000 ;
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...A compelling look at Pontius Pilate By DIEGO RIBADENEIRA Boston Globe Thursday, April 27, 2000 Pontius Pilate. By Ann Wroe. Random House. 412 pages ... to flesh out the remains of Pontius Pilate. The mythology that has grown ...
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