A question to the experts in the forum.
Who was the Roman governor most ruthless and bloodthirsty of the first two centuries CE, in Judea?
Pilate?
There was no more tyrannical than him?
it is certain?
Very thanks.
Who was the governor most cruel?
Who was the governor most cruel?
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
Re: Who was the governor most cruel?
I read:
But I see all the so-called ''historical'' portraits of Pilate take the gospels as if they were ''remembered history'', in this way inevitably distorting the real Pilate.
So maybe the better question would be:
taking only the works of Josephus, there was someone worse than Pilate on the plane of moral injustice?
source: https://www.academia.edu/9051617/Pilate ... _of_JudaeaWhen you take the whole of Josephus‘ work, and look at history portraying him as a leader in The Jewish Revolt, one cannot help but speculate that his chief aim is to paint Rome negatively in order to facilitate a large-scale rebellion
But I see all the so-called ''historical'' portraits of Pilate take the gospels as if they were ''remembered history'', in this way inevitably distorting the real Pilate.
So maybe the better question would be:
taking only the works of Josephus, there was someone worse than Pilate on the plane of moral injustice?
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.