Pontius Pilate Quotes

“the new system did not replace the former one but, in line with a typically Roman habit, ran alongside and gradually emptied it of significance—”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“Rome governed first and foremost through consensus, and, where possible, through integration, cultivating privileged alliances with the different local aristocracies: loyalty in exchange for legitimation of their own privileges.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“manípulo,”
― Aldo Schiavone, Poncio Pilato: Un enigma entre historia y memoria (Estructuras y Procesos. Religión)

“That from a certain moment, a tacit and unspeakable pact formed between Pilate and Jesus, which pushed Pilate in the direction that Jesus regarded as inevitable.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“things stood, Pilate could either accept the request of the priests, or release the prisoner and place before them the fait accompli of his non-appealable decision.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“It is the specific power of Pilate over him which (in his eyes) is nothing, except insofar as it forms part of God’s intention.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“Here is the man,”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“In a part of early Christian memory, based on an evident forgery whose genesis cannot be investigated or traced here, a gnawing, corrosive, tenaciously anti-Semitic drive took root, which no exegetic acrobatics could possibly diminish: a deep well of poison that would be transmitted, intact and baleful, down the centuries, preserved in the heart of a memory that became increasingly precious and untouchable.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“coup de main,”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“(The concept of “political theology” is not modern, nor does it start with Spinoza, as is usually believed; it is Roman–Hellenistic, and was developed in a cultural environment between the second and first century BC, from the circle of the philosopher Aetius to the jurist Quintus Mucius Scaevola, and the erudite antiquarian Marcus Terentius Varro.)”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“that is, a procedure conducted according to the “order” (ordo) of public laws voted in assemblies or regulated “outside of order” (extra ordinem) by the new praxis of the emperor’s functionaries.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“Even though some strands and forces in Jewish society—and in Jerusalem itself—were in favor of giving new shape to the religiosity of Abraham and Moses, which had been crystallized by custom and observance, we can confidently say that the two worlds never meshed.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“The Jewish authorities enjoyed considerable autonomy regarding criminal repression on religious issues, but public security was a wholly Roman affair.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“The death of Jesus comes, in the mirror of all four Gospels, as the culmination of his preaching and testimony—not a trauma that interrupts a path, but an event that completes and perfects it, and projects it toward the eternal.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“Compared to what looks to be the plane of historically ascertained events, religious memory may even resort to seemingly pure invention, if it furthers the pursuit of goals considered to be didactically and theologically essential; and the only coherence we can expect is that which is found within the thoughts, impressions, and behaviors recalled on each occasion.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“In my interpretation, I have tried to draw fruitfully on both these nuclei: Christian remembrance and imperial history.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“The Gospels are not books of history, nor are they intended to be.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“The story we are about to tell is also the catastrophe of a hopeless intellectual incomprehension, yielding consequences that still impinge upon us today.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

“which has ended up making ambiguity the dominant aspect of his portrait.”
― Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory