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Pilate, Pontius
Pilate, Pontius Prefect, also called, less accurately, procurator, of
Judaea from 26 CE, commander of the army and chief justice. He appointed the high priests and had little sympathy with his Jewish subjects, having been associated with Sejanus, an antisemitic conspirator in
Rome. He seized funds from the Temple to build an aqueduct; for cruelty in
Samaria he was recalled to Rome in 37 CE. In the gospels he is portrayed as doing his best for Jesus but as unable to resist the demands of the Jews, who could have denounced him to the emperor
Tiberius. Later Christian
antisemitism tended to exonerate Pilate altogether. An inscription bearing his name was found at Caesarea in 1961.
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PONTIUS PILATE.(Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; PONTIUS PILATE. By ANN WROE. Random House. 412 pp. $26.95. NEXT TO JULIUS CAESAR, Pontius Pilate--the governor of Judea who sent Jesus...Christians to quip that "crucified under Pontius Pilate" is the only article of Christian faith...
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Pontius Pilate.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Pontius Pilate. by Ann Wroe. Random House, 412 pp...gentleman's encounter with the elderly Pontius Pilate at a spa where they are both taking...Christian creed ("crucified under Pontius Pilate") as the seal of Roman authority in...
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PONTIUS PILATE IN HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION.(Review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; PONTIUS PILATE IN HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION By Helen...the motivations historically linked to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor whose public hand...authors of the four gospels. The book, Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation, by Helen...
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A novel look at Pontius Pilate
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 4/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...unsavory political qualities in Pontius Pilate, the Roman-appointed governor...penned a novel, "Memoirs of Pontius Pilate" (Fleming H. Revell, hardcover...had an account by Caiaphas or Pontius Pilate." Mills began doing research...
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Profile Pontius Pilate How much blood is on those well-washed hands? Among the persecutors of Jesus, the Roman governor of Judea remains a strangely sympathetic figure, writes William Langley, so that Tony Blair has professed his fascination with this ancient politician, while in Ethiopia the church has proclaimed him a saint
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/23/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...The Passion, treats Pontius Pilate kindly, showing the...words "suffered under Pontius Pilate" as part of the Creed...increasingly in modern times, Pilate's story has come to...swirl of the Passion, Pontius's should be barely...
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A compelling look at Pontius Pilate
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; A compelling look at Pontius Pilate By DIEGO RIBADENEIRA Boston Globe Thursday, April 27, 2000 Pontius Pilate. By Ann Wroe. Random House...trying to flesh out the remains of Pontius Pilate. The mythology that has grown...
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Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation, by Helen K. Bond. SNTSMS 100. Cambridge...major aim of Bond's work is to "see how this real historical figure [Pontius Pilate] was used by various Jewish and Christian authors of the first century...
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Mystery, doubt shroud Pontius Pilate's wife
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 4/9/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...2009 Mystery, doubt shroud Pontius Pilate's wife -- To some she's saint...Edtion: All Editions For all of Pontius Pilate's faults, one was distinctly...Ethiopian church also canonized Pontius Pilate. "He was very sensitive and...
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Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor, by Warren Carter. Interfaces Series...portion of biblical content. Included in the series is Warren Carter's Pontius Pilate: Portaits of a Roman Governor, a book that endeavors to show how a...
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WHO WAS PONTIUS PILATE? A THOROUGH LOOK AT JESUS' JUDGE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/18/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...ages from trying to flesh out the remains of Pontius Pilate. The mythology that has grown around Pilate is enormous. To some, he was the ultimate...vivid work that offers a complex portrait of Pilate as neither all good nor all evil. Hers is...
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Pontius Pilate
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Pontius Pilate (d. c. 36 ad), Roman procurator of...that he was innocent of Jesus's blood. Pilate appeared as a character in medieval mystery...evading responsibility for their actions. Pilate was later recalled to Rome following a...
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Pilate, Pontius
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Pilate, Pontius See Pontius Pilate
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Pilate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pilate see Pontius Pilate .
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trial(s) of Jesus
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...no legal right to inflict capital punishment , and Pontius Pilate Pilate acceded to the wishes of the Jewish leaders, and condemned...rephrased in political terms (Luke 23: 2), and Pilate gave way to the pressure. That the Jewish authorities...
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procurator
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...subordinate to the legate. Pontius Pilate is sometimes referred to as the...and Festus (Acts 24: 27). Pilate does seem to have had the status...frequently applied title procurator to Pontius Pilate is due to the historian Josephus...
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