Pilate, Barabbas, and the Privilegium Paschale: Law and Leverage in Roman Judaea
Pilate’s Passover offer to release ‘Barabbas’ has long been considered one of the least historically credible details of the Passion narrative. This paper returns to the so-called privilegium paschale once more and argues that new perspectives on law in the provinces of Rome, further reflection on t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2025, Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages: 501-525 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pilatus, Pontius ca. 1. Jh. v. Chr./1. Jh.
/ Barabbas, Biblical person
/ Law
/ Judea
/ Jesus Christus
/ Historicity
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| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Pilate
B Trial B Jews B Jesus B privilegium paschale B Passover B Roman Law B Barabbas B Pardon |
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| Summary: | Pilate’s Passover offer to release ‘Barabbas’ has long been considered one of the least historically credible details of the Passion narrative. This paper returns to the so-called privilegium paschale once more and argues that new perspectives on law in the provinces of Rome, further reflection on the realities of government in Judaea, and the deployment of some comparative legal thinking may be able to retrieve Pilate’s offer for the historical record. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X241307204 |
