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The biography of Pontius Pilate is the crucial dramatic point of intersection between Christian memory as preserved in the Gospels, Jewish history and Roman imperial history.
It includes an episode of unparalleled importance in the history of the West – the death of Jesus. Pilate is the only historical figure whom Christian tradition records as having had a long dialogue with Jesus. He appears to have uttered and listened to words, made and witnessed gestures, that have accompanied us for two thousand years.
Who was he really? A despot? An accomplice? A bungler? Why do the Gospels flood his figure in a light that blurs its outlines, making all his features ambiguous and elusive? What are they trying to hide?
The book approaches the theme as if for the first time. It does not ignore the huge mass of previous studies, but filters and reworks them in a reconstruction that sets out simply to describe and explain what might have happened. In so doing, however, it offers a surprising solution to an enigma.
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Aldo Schiavone is Full Professor in Roman Law at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, which he founded. He was its director from 2006 to 2010. In 2013 this Institut became part of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Florence.
He was Professeur Invité at the Collège de France, Paris, Senior fellowship, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Membership of the Insti- tute for Advanced Study (School for Historical Studies), Princeton, NJ, USA, and Directeur de Recherche invité at the EHESS, Paris.
He was columnist for the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ (1985-2011). He was awarded, on 2005, with the Gold Medal for Achievements in Education, Culture, Science and Art by the Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Since 2007 he’s Onorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Foreign translations:
Storia e destino, Torino, Einaudi 2007: French transl. Belin, 2009. Spanish transl. Amorrortu editores, 2014.
Ius. L’invenzione del diritto in Occidente, Torino, Einaudi 2005: French transl. Belin, 2008, reprint 2011; Spanish transl. Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2009; American transl. Harvard UP., 2012.
La storia spezzata. Roma antica e occidente moderno, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996 and 2002, reprint 2020 Giulio Einaudi Editore. American transl. Harvard UP., 2000, reprint 2002; Portuguese transl. São Paulo UP., 2005; French transl. Belin, reprint 2009.
Spartaco. American transl. Harvard U.P. 2013; French transl. Belin 2014.
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- Publisher Giulio Einaudi Editore
- Publication Date January 2017
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788806233075
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12 EUR
- Pages215
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePonzio Pilato. Un enigma tra storia e memoria
- Copyright Year2017
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