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...past century, the politically correct way to attach blame was to pin it on a vanished empire -- the Rome of the Caesars and its representative in Judea, Pontius Pilate. But a new, two-volume study by one of the Roman Catholic Church's most prominent experts on the Gospels dismisses that approach. "You can't just say there was no Jewish involvement in the death of Jesus," says Father Raymond E. Brown, author of The Death of the Messiah (Doubleday; 1,608 pages; $75), which re-examines this and dozens of other issues on the crucifixion. "Jesus...
Bouffier provides a rather novel interpretation of Sartorius as a rather insecure man with a Pontius Pilate-like attitude to the nature of truth...
...Pontius Pilate, Steve Lyne adds depth to a one-dimensional Biblical character. He presents Pilate as a weak person who would like to save Jesus but doesn't have the strength of character to withstand pressure from the crowd...
...didn't support divestment. It offered, I believed, no promise of accomplishing anything constructive to end apartheid. Rather, in June, I--and just five others--wrote on this page that divestment was nothing more than an intellectual cop-out, a Pontius-Pilate-like washing of the hands...
...support divestment. It offers no promise of doing anything constructive to end apartheid. Rather, it is an intellectual cop-out, a Pontius Pilate-tike washing of the hands...