Pilate and Jesus

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in later Christian writings. This book takes Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus as a starting point for investigating the function...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804794545
• ISBN13: 9780804794541
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 6.8"