It has to do the happenings in Judea
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“Pontus Pilot ?”
Doesn’t pass the smell test.
I researched this letter a while ago. I think it can be traced back to the third century. It can’t be authenticated as being written by Pilate.
I find it interesting that in the Gospel of John, Pilate takes Christ inside the praetorium where no Jew would go for fear of defilement. Yet, the details of the exchange between Pilate and Christ are documented with great specificity. It stands to reason that at least one party to that conversation became Christian at some point so as to relate the account to the writer of John.
For me, one of the most subtle but powerful passages in Mel Gibson's "Passion," is that scene where Pilate addresses Christ in Aramaic, and Christ responds to him in Latin. The actor portraying Pilate is caught off guard, and realizes this is no ordinary prisoner, or man before him.
Certain, Pilate's role in Christ's crucifixion is clear from scripture, but one can only muse as to what became of him later. His wife certainly understood that there was a power greater than Rome at work, and I suspect he did to.
I think in many ways, we all face our Pilate moment(s) in life, and in many ways he is us.
How many calves did he have to skin to write such a long letter?
Pretty sure this is the material mentioned by E J Godspeed in hi very fine “Modern Apocrypha” along with many other works described as “pious forgeries.” I wouldn’t put too much stock in it.
I’ve read it is a medieval fake to give artists of the time something to base their paintings of Jesus on.
Not buying into this.
Bttt.
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Sounds very 19th century, later 19th century to me.
There is 0% chance that this letter was written by Pilate.
Such a letter was widely circulated within the fourth century, there being a few significantly varied manuscript. There is no evidence that the Church at the time regarded it authentic. In fact, Eusebius reports of a letter from Pilate to Caesar with quite the opposite tone. That letter has been lost, but so widely referenced that various scholars have attempted to determine its contents in its entirety.
There also exists an apocryphal* gospel, The Acts of Pilate, and a book, The Book of the Rooster which enjoys a semi-canonical status among Ge-ez, an Eastern Christian sect from Ethiopia often called “Orthodox,” but which have beliefs not common among other Orthodox churches.
Apocryphal here means works that were held by certain sects to be secret truths, as opposed to its completely improper misuse to refer to books from ancient Christian Old Testaments that Saint Jerome noted were not deemed authentic by those Jews of his day who did not believe in Christ. Some apocryphal gospels are plainly non-Christian, while others record legends about Jesus and the first Christians which were held to be true, but not recorded in Canonical gospels.
Some legends from the apocrypha show remarkable consistency, despite varying details which betray that they come from very disparate sources. The information contained in such apocrypha is regarded as true, if not authoritative, by Catholic and/or Orthodox tradition, such as the “origin stories” of the Holy Family, whose differences reflect varying tradition on details (such as the prior marital status of Joseph). Pilate apocrypha, however utterly contradict each other: some suppose Pilate died a heroic, Christian martyr, others that he died a demon-haunted villain.
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No, there is no Jesus jumping to see the Roman Governor, and the rest, while eloquent, sounds contrived.
Today, Hollywood seems to be of an opposite mind: to blame the Romans and not isolate the Jews.
Each individual will, I suppose, make up their own mind.
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I doubt it was the Roman practice to send a governor of a province into the province without a standard military presence to protect him and the Roman bureaucracy that would help govern the province and collect taxes.
Wasn’t Pilate’s residence in the Antonia Fortress attached to the Temple Mount? I don’t have the patience or time at my advanced age any more to confirm my thoughts.
Golden colored hair and beard?