![]() ![]() You do not draw attention to yourself in the middle of a political purge. This would be true even if Sejanus had not appointed Pilate. He had to keep his head down and not waves, such as keeping the massacres of Jews to a minimum. We cannot be sure but Sejanus may have actually appointed Pilate who was now in a very vulnerable position. In 31 AD Sejanus was accused of conspiring to overthrow Tiberius and was executed, along with many of his followers. About the time Pilate became governor of Judea in 26 AD, the Roman emperor Tiberius went into semi-retirement and Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, assumed a lot of the emperor’s responsibilities. In fact, there is a possible explanation for Pilate’s apparently wimpish behaviour in the Gospels. The historical Plate was a crueller, harsher person who would not hesitate to crucify a Jew (p. ![]() All page references are from Reza Aslan, Zealot, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2017, unless otherwise indicated.Īslan says that the Gospel’s portrait of a weak-willed Pilate who was pressured into crucifying Jesus by the Jewish leaders is “pure fiction”. ![]() This post will discuss the trial, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and the supposed development of beliefs about Jesus in the early church. This is the second part of my critique of the 2013 book Zealot by Reza Aslan who argued that the historical Jesus was really a revolutionary zealot. ![]()
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