Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Series Editors’ Preface ix
6. Frontispiece xi
7. Prologue: ‘Do You Enjoy Being a Symbol, Pontius?’ The Trial of Pontius Pilate and Governor Collins 1
8. 1 Quod Scripsi Scripsi 13
9. 2 The Silent Pilate 27
10. 3 The Roman in the Living Room: Pilate on TV in the Early 1950s 44
11. 4 Mrs Pilate: Claudia Procula and Clare Boothe Luce 65
12. 5 Pilate in CinemaScope, or Notes on Roman Camp 91
13. 6 Finding Meaning in the Middlebrow: Pilate in the 1960s 113
14. 7 What Is Truth? Pilate as 1970s Moral Relativist 140
15. 8 Michael Palin’s Accent in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and a Few Others 172
16. 9 Grand and Not-So-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan Age 198
17. 10 ‘We at War’: Pilate for the New Millennium 228
18. Epilogue: A Time of Handwashing 257
19. Works Cited 264
20. Index 280