Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian
theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed,
he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts,
as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the
Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in
later Christian writings. This book takes Pilate's role in the
trial of Jesus as a starting point for investigating the function
of legal judgment in Western society and the ways that such
judgment requires us to adjudicate the competing claims of the
eternal and the historical. Coming just as Agamben is bringing his
decades-long Homo Sacer project to an end, Pilate and Jesus sheds
considerable light on what is at stake in that series as a whole.
At the same time, it stands on its own, perhaps more than any of
the author's recent works. It thus serves as a perfect starting
place for readers who are curious about Agamben's approach but do
not know where to begin.
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