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Meet the Historical Pontius Pilate


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Season 1: Episode 19
Meet the Historical Pontius Pilate
Date Aired: 03/31/2023

In the second of four Easter episodes, Helen and Dave investigate the historical Pontius Pilate (or “Ponty P” as Helen calls him). What was Pilate’s job in Roman-ruled Judaea? Was Jesus the only controversial messiah figure that Pilate had to contend with? And most importantly, how did Pilate end up buried at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland?

Listen to the episode on the Biblical Time Machine website or wherever you get your podcasts.

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  • The Biblical Time Machine Podcast is hosted by Helen Bond and Dave Roos. Helen Bond is professor of Christian origins at Edinburgh University. She is the author of Women Remembered: Jesus’s Female Disciples, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel, and The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed. Her research focuses on the social and political history of first century Judaea, the historical Jesus and the canonical gospels. Dave Roos is a journalist and writer who contributes to History.com, HowStuffWorks and the popular podcast Stuff You Should Know. Dave has a degree in religious studies from Duke University.