Pontius Pilatus

Pontius Pilatus was the Roman prefect of Judaea who authorised the crucifixion of Jesus. His administration belongs to a period of tension between imperial government, local elites and popular religious movements.

Robert Graves’s King Jesus places Pontius Pilatus within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, religion, belief and institutional authority, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. Jeanne Blanchet’s Man at the Cross Road places Pontius Pilatus within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and religion, belief and institutional authority. Other novels featuring Pontius Pilatus include Margaret George’s Mary, Called Magdalene and Mika Waltari’s The Secret of the Kingdom.