PONTIUS PILATE（ISBN=） 英文原版

Pontius Pilate, by Ann Wroe, is beautifully written,
imaginatively researched, and intricately structured. Most
importantly, it provides readers with a valuable emotional
experience: a chance to rediscover and redeem Pilate’s famous
question–“What is truth?”–in a spirit of humility and hope. A
handful of small coins and one inscribed stone are the only
physical evidence that Pilate existed. All of the textual sources
that mention Pilate, Wroe notes, are “so wrapped in propaganda or
agendas that it is difficult to detect what, if anything, may be
true.” But since Pilate “stands at the center of the Christian
story and God’s plan of redemption,” Wroe persevered in her efforts
to discern the profile of his life. “Without his climactic judgment
of Jesus, the world would not have been saved. To have a faceless
bureaucrat at the heart of all this drama was unacceptable:
something had to be made of this man.” The book’s bold ambition,
however, is not blind. “This is not a search for the ‘real’
Pilate,” Wroe admits. “At best, all we have are glints and
hypotheses.” To learn about her subject, Wroe had to sacrifice most
of her sympathetic impulses and shift her concentration to the
elements of Roman life that she did not understand. And oddly
enough, the passages in which Wroe describes her ignorance most
clearly are where we begin to glimpse “a man actually walking on a
marble floor in Caesarea, feeling his shoes pinch, clicking his
fingers for a slave, while clouds of lasting infamy gather
overhead.” –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.

Introduction
Prologue: PILATE ON THE BEACH
1.  THE FORUM AND THE FOREST
2. GOVERNING JUDAEA
3. GOD’S SECRET AGENT
4. BLOOD ON HIS BOOTS
5. THE GREAT EQUIVOCATOR
6. WITNESS TO CHRIST
7. THROUGH BRAKE, THROUGH BRIAR
Epilogue: PILATE ON THE BEACH
Acknowledgments
Select Bibliography
Index
Reading Group Guide