The Apocryphal Jesus. Episode 12, The Apocrypha and Pilate's Sanctification. - 1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

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David Brakke

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017.

In the early centuries, Christianity became a Roman religion, which created awkwardness given that the Roman Pontius Pilate crucified Jesus. Find out how certain apocryphal texts - including the Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as the Acts of Pilate - dealt with this problem by recasting Pilate as a sympathetic figure and, ultimately, a Christian saint.


Mode of access: World Wide Web.


In English

6715144 Kanopy


Bible.
History, Ancient.
Philosophy and religion.


Education films.