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  The Master and Margarita

  by Mikhaíl Bulgakov

  The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught.
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  Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

  by Antoinette May

  A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young... (more)
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  Pontius Pilate

  by Paul L. Maier

  This dramatic historical fiction offers a behind-the-scenes story of an ambitious Roman politician whose fateful decision changed the course of history. Guaranteed fiction! (20040603)
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  The Fellowship of the Essentials: Book 1

  The Diaries of Pontius Pilate

  by Joseph Max Lewis

  The Diaries of Pontius opens when a member of an archeological team is murdered along the shores of the Dead Sea. We learn that the murderer and victim are both spies, observing the expedition and grappling with the fact that the team has just discovered some controversial artifacts. In fact, Archeologist Kevin Elliot and his Deputy, Jill Gates have unearthed twenty copper scrolls etched with the results of... (more)
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  Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate

  by Diana Wallis Taylor

  Claudia's life did not start easily. The illegitimate daughter of Julia, reviled and exiled daughter of Caesar Augustus, Claudia spends her childhood in a guarded villa with her mother and grandmother. When Tiberius, who hates Julia, takes the throne, Claudia is wrenched away from her mother to be brought up in the palace in Rome. The young woman is adrift--until she meets Lucius Pontius Pilate and becomes his... (more)
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  On Calvary's Hill

  40 Readings for the Easter Season

  by Max Lucado

  It's early in the final week. The props and players for Friday's drama are in position. Five-inch spikes are in the bin. A cross-beam leans against a shed wall. The players are nearing the stage--Pilate, Annas and Caiaphas, Judas, the centurions.Players and props. Only this is no play; it's a divine plan. A plan begun before Adam felt heaven's breath, and now all heaven waits and watches. All eyes are on... (more)
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  The Easter Story

  by Carol Heyer

  This inspiring book takes the young reader from Christ's birth through his life, his death, and his Resurrection. The true meaning of Easter's rituals and traditions comes to life in Heyer's portrayals of the Last Supper, the crucifixion, and the glory of Easter morning.
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  The Day Christ Died

  by Jim Bishop

  "This is a book about the most dramatic day in the history of the world, the day on which Jesus of Nazareth died. It opens at 6 P.M. -- the beginning of the Hebrew day -- with Jesus and ten of the apostles coming through the pass between the Mount of Olives and the Mount of Offense en route to Jerusalem and the Last Supper. It closes at 4 P.M. the following afternoon, when Jesus was taken down from the cross. . .... (more)
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  Soldier of Rome: Book 4

  Soldier of Rome: The Centurion Book Four of the Artorian Chronicles

  by James Mace

  BETRAYAL AND DEVASTATION In the year 28 A.D. the people of Frisia, a previously loyal province, were suffering under the oppression of the Roman magistrate, a former Centurion named Olennius. So blinded by greed had he become that he had taxed the populous well beyond their means to produce. Now impoverished and risking starvation, the Frisians did the unspeakable and sought open rebellion as their only means... (more)
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  The Gospel of Anonymous: Absolving All Men of the Most Hideous Crime of Deicide

  by László Bitó

  The scribe met Yeshua of Nazareth in the troubled years of his youth and became, for the rest of his life, a true and faithful disciple. As both a victim and a witness to the conflict regarding Yeshua’s last days, the scribe felt that he must tell the truth about the events leading up to Yeshua’s crucifixion and resurrection; he shows how a man who taught love and compassion became the center of murderous discord.... (more)
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  The Gospel According to the Romans: a non-believer's view

  by Robin Helweg-Larsen

  “Forget the legends. Jesus was a Jew, and he hated the Romans. I know, because I lived with him and his followers for a year.” The man we call Saint Matthew, being the tax collector “sitting at the receipt of custom” in Capernaum, is by definition a Roman agent appointed by Pontius Pilate. As such, he has the additional function of keeping an eye on the Zealots and other religious fanatics who head... (more)
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  Two Women Of Galilee (MIRA Single Title Hardbacks)

  by Mary Rourke

  In this stunning debut novel, journalist Mary Rourke offers a vivid panorama of life in first-century Galilee, with visits to the decadent splendor of Herod's court in Tiberias and Pontius Pilate's opulent governor's palace in Jerusalem. Creating a richly imagined life for Joanna, a follower of Jesus mentioned briefly in the New Testament, Rourke offers a new perspective on the world's most celebrated woman --... (more)
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  Memoirs of Pontius Pilate: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

  by James R. Mills

  It's been thirty years since he sentenced the troublemaker to die, but Pontius Pilate can't get Jesus out of his mind. . . . Forced to live out his life in exile, Pontius Pilate, the former governor of Judea, is now haunted by the executions that were carried out on his orders. The life and death of a particular carpenter from Nazareth lay heavily on his mind. With years of solitude stretched out before him,... (more)
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  Pontius Pilate

  The Biography of an Invented Man

  by Ann Wroe

  The foil to Jesus, the defiant antihero of the Easter story, mocking, skeptical Pilate is a historical figure who haunts our imagination. For some he is a saint, for others the embodiment of human weakness, an archetypal politician willing to sacrifice one man for the sake of stability. In this dazzlingly conceived biography, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life. Working... (more)