Pontius pilate short biography book

          The true story of how and why the crucifixion took place, from the perspective of the Roman politician who changed history!

        1. The true story of how and why the crucifixion took place, from the perspective of the Roman politician who changed history!
        2. The true story of how and why the crucifixion took place, from the perspective of the Roman politician who changed history.
        3. In this dazzlingly conceived biography, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life.
        4. May 26, This book is unique in that it does not assume to have all the facts about Pontius Pilate's life.
        5. In Wroe's hands, the life of the Roman governor of Judea who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to death is painstakingly reconstructed from a variety of sources.

          6. In this dazzlingly conceived biography, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life....

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          ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK - "Sublime . . . The definitive study of Pilate."--The Washington Post Book World


          "Compelling, eloquent and vivid .

          . . In a superb blend of scholarship and creativity, Wroe brings this elusive yet pivotal figure to life."--The Boston Globe

          One ofEsquire's Best Biographies of All Time - Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize

          The foil to Jesus, the defiant antihero of the Easter story, mocking, skeptical Pilate is a historical figure who haunts our imagination.

          An anti-Semitic Pontius Pilate, in exile at Vienne, around the year 64 AD, narrates a history of the events when he was procurator of Judea, Samaria and Idumea.

          For some he is a saint, for others the embodiment of human weakness, an archetypal politician willing to sacrifice one man for the sake of stability.

          In this dazzlingly conceived biography, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life.

          Working from classical sources, she reconstructs his origins and upbringing, his career in the military and life in Rome, his confrontation with Christ, and his long journey home. We catch glimpses of him pacing the marble floo