Over the past 2,000 years, it was common for some Christians to deem Pilate almost blameless for Jesus’ death and treat Jews ...

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a "misreading" that has often come back to haunt Jews come ...

One account, written in the mid-second century or later, and not included in the New Testament, even claimed that Jesus’ crucifixion was not ordered by Pilate. Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the ...

History suggests otherwise, a scholar explains. (The Conversation) — It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his ...

Nathanael Andrade has received fellowship funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation/the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of ...

A Scottish legend claims the Roman governor who ordered Jesus' crucifixion may have been born in this Highland village ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

Easter is supposed to be a happy time, but all I can think of is the people who persecuted Jesus. At a time when Christians ...