Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man
Ann Wroe
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Paperback. 8vo . Very good clean copy in dustwrapper.Religion
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224059428
SKU
KEX0281523
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ann Wroe
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.
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