Who was the governor most cruel?

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Giuseppe
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Who was the governor most cruel?

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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.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: Who was the governor most cruel?

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I read:
When 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
source: https://www.academia.edu/9051617/Pilate ... _of_Judaea

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.
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