Pontius Pilate - Rilegato

Wroe, Ann

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ISBN 10: 0375503056 ISBN 13: 9780375503054

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Reconstructed from classical sources, the man whom the gospels report stood trial over Jesus is revealed as a fairly average Roman administrator mythologized by two thousand years of Christian history. 25,000 first printing.

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Praise for Pontius Pilate

"A splendid biography...meticulous and eloquent. In the course of this account, the reader discovers in a new way that evil and good are often deeply and mysteriously complementary."
—Karen Armstrong

"In writing about Pilate, the decisions he made and the responsibility he has since had to bear, Wroe is also writing about the nature of guilt, human uncertainty, and solitariness. It is a book which will take root inside your head and grow there."
—Julia Blackburn

"Ann Wroe demonstrates, with a wide range of examples and reading, how men and women dip into this story and use it as a way of understanding themselves. Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful, writer. It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book."
—A. N. Wilson

"Ann Wroe's text crackles with millennia of moral meaning. We are made to feel for the figure who, from the balcony of his palace, may have seen Christ preach, and it is this Pilate to whom she dedicates her erudition. A remarkable book. It is an inspiration."
—Fiona Shaw

"Any petty ambitions of Pontius Pilate to leave some trace of his contributions to Roman imperial history as governor of Judaea were overwhelmed by his supporting role in the foundation of the Christian religion....There are far too many 'spiritual' books around which are problem-raising or problem-solving. Far too few are aware of the need to find a poetry and imagination to equip us for the spiritual quest. This book has some of that rare quality. It is free from moralizing clichés about wishy-washy leadership and understands that our need is not so much to solve as to deepen the mysteries of faith."
—Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury

"The trial of Jesus has absorbed the imagination of writers and theologians throughout the last two thousand years. The most human way to read the story is through the eyes of Pilate—who can thus take the place of Everyman, not just Everyruler....There are pages here that have the touch of a master novelist. This is a book that will make you think and feel in a new way about an old story which many of us think we know, but which few have ever explored so imaginatively."
—Noel Malcolm

L'autore:

Ann Wroe wrote her first book at the age of seven. She received her doctorate in history from Oxford University, and then joined the BBC World Service to cover the last years of communism in Europe. Since 1992 she has been the editor of the American section of The Economist; before that she was its literary editor. Her books include Lives, Lies and the Iran-Contra Affair and A Fool and His Money, an account of a scandal in a French village during the Hundred Years' War. She lives in London with her husband and three sons.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503056
• ISBN 13: 9780375503054
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida