About the book
Ann Wroe's biography sets out to recover Pontius Pilate and the world he lived in. Working from classical sources, she rebuilds his background and early years, his career as a soldier, his life in Rome, his encounter with Christ and his long trip home. Small scenes show him pacing marble floors in Caesarea, sharpening his stylus, or dressing before sunrise on the day that would define his reputation. Wroe asks what pressures bore on Pilate that day and what he truly thought of Jesus. The result presents Christ's trial, with all its confusion, through the eyes of the man who sent him to execution.
Ryan Holiday, listing it among the best books he read in 2023, marveled that Wroe built a rich 432-page portrait from a historical record of only a few artifacts and inscriptions.
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Ryan Holiday (Media Strategist, Author, Founder/Brass Check)
How on earth did Wroe manage to produce such a rich and fascinating, 432-page book about a guy for which the historical record is not more than a couple artifacts and inscriptions?
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