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“Pilate Did Not Utter a Sentence”
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The myth that Pilate never sentenced Jesus, and the myth that Judaean zealots crucified Jesus, both seem to be datable to texts written by Christians within a century of the crucifixion. The Christian myth of Pilate’s innocence is nearly as old as the Christian confession of Jesus’ death. This myth could be retraced, in an unbroken tradition, from the second century to the twenty-first. But in this chapter, the purpose is rather to introduce several early Christian sources of the vivid, convoluted Pilate-tradition in Europe. Many, but by no means all, of the forgeries that early Christians ascribed to ‘Pilate’ depict the Roman as innocent.
Title: “Pilate Did Not Utter a Sentence”
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The myth that Pilate never sentenced Jesus, and the myth that Judaean zealots crucified Jesus, both seem to be datable to texts written by Christians within a century of the crucifixion.
The Christian myth of Pilate’s innocence is nearly as old as the Christian confession of Jesus’ death.
This myth could be retraced, in an unbroken tradition, from the second century to the twenty-first.
But in this chapter, the purpose is rather to introduce several early Christian sources of the vivid, convoluted Pilate-tradition in Europe.
Many, but by no means all, of the forgeries that early Christians ascribed to ‘Pilate’ depict the Roman as innocent.
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