DO NOT WASTE YOUR CREDITS OR YOUR MONEY IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN !!! This book twists all the scripture and teachings and makes a mockery of the Bible and the Christian faith. The story says that Jesus married the woman at the well and it was at their marriage that he turned the water into wine, when in fact the wine was his first miracle. It is alluded that a "potion" made by Pilate's wife may have been responsible for the ressurection. What was great subject material was totally misused and I was very disappointed.
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Very engagingly written, Pilate's Wife tells the tale of the woman behind the Roman governor destined to live in infamy as the crucifier of Jesus. It begins in her youth, and is attentive to the detail of daily Roman life as well as sweeping Roman politics. Claudia relates her tale in the first person, and you feel for her as she spends her brief time on earth, caught up in the last events of the Roman empire and the founding of Christianity.

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The tale is told by Claudia, the wife of Pilate, who has visions of the future. Drawn by the goddess, Isis, she becomes an initiate and follower. She travels with her family because her father is a good friend of Germanicus, her uncle and a famous general. Men have no interest for Claudia until she is drawn to Pilate and marries him. At this point Germanicus becomes ill and is the first of the family to die. She loses her parents, two brothers, her sister and her aunt at the whim of Tiberius. Knowing that her husband has other women, she has just her daughter to comfort her. She has encounters Holtan, a famous gladiator, whom she met as a child, when she "saw" he would win in the arena. Drawn to him, she realizes that she loves him. Claudia has an affair with Holtan which is discovered by Tiberius' wife, Livia, who arranges to have Pilate and Claudia sent to Judea. She begins having visions about crosses, death and a face she has seen before - Jesus, of course. Then her lover dies of the plague. This is a pleasant if predictable read because we know the story so well.

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Really enjoyed this book...felt like I was actually back in the time of Pilate and Jesus. I liked how the story intertwined their lives, with a twist.

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Claudia is a woman from a wealthy family, living in Rome. At the marrying age, she spies Pilate from afar, and asks her goddess Isis to cast a love spell on him. They marry, and go through what many couples today go through - loss of love, boredome, betrayal, but manage to keep their marriage together - fortunately for Claudia because Pilate could have her put to death. They travel throughout the Roman Empire, ending up in Judea at the time of Christ. As a Christian, the Roman point of view was an interesting perspective of Jesus' crucifixion. The disparity between the Roman way of life and the Jewish culture could have been develop more, but the picture was made very clear. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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