Pilate and Jesus

Pilate and Jesus

by Agamben, Giorgio

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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 of legal judgment in Western society and the ways …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Pilate and Jesus / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko.

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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 of legal judgment in Western society and the ways that such judgment requires us to adjudicate the competing claims of the eternal and the historical.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

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Notes

"Originally published in Italian in 2013 under the title Pilato e Gesù."

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  • Description:1 online resource (IX, [3], 63 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780804794589, 0804794588
  • oclc:ocn900276650
  • LC Classification:BS2520.P55
  • Dewey Decimal:232.96/2

Subjects

Crucifixion of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Pilate, Pontius RELIGION -- Christian Theology Trial of Jesus Christ

Writers

Agamben, Giorgio Kotsko, Adam

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