The Gospel of Pilate

The Lost Story of Jesus's Descent Into Hell

von Jonathan C Hillman

66 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Apostles' Creed says Jesus "descended into hell." Your Bible doesn't tell that story.

Where did the story come from?

Centuries after Jesus's death, an extraordinary Christian text began telling the story in vivid detail. Known through traditions including the Acts of Pilate and the Gospel of Nicodemus, it expands the story of Jesus's trial, death, resurrection, and descent into the underworld.

Part one rewrites the trial before Pontius Pilate, adding witnesses, signs, and dramatic details that turn the Roman governor into a far more sympathetic figure. Part two takes the story somewhere the four canonical Gospels never actually describe: through the gates of Hell itself.

Inside this book, you'll discover:

- Why the Acts of Pilate may have been written partly in response to hostile accounts of Jesus

- How the trial narrative adds new witnesses, Roman banners bowing before Jesus, and a Pilate increasingly portrayed as reluctant to condemn him

- The dramatic story of the Harrowing of Hell - Satan and Hades turning against one another, Adam being freed, and the righteous dead awaiting Christ's arrival

- How an apocryphal Christian text became one of the most influential stories in medieval Christianity

- How the tradition surrounding Christ's descent into the underworld entered medieval drama, Christian art, and later European literature

- Why a text excluded from the biblical canon survived for centuries - not by disappearing, but by thriving outside the Bible

Written in the same fast, direct style as The Book of Enoch, The Gospel They Buried, Judas: Traitor or Hero?, and The Gospel of Mary, The Gospel of Pilate follows a remarkable ancient tradition from its origins and manuscript history to its extraordinary afterlife in Christian culture.

This isn't a text Pilate wrote. It's the story of a text that claimed to speak in his name - and of the extraordinary tradition of Jesus's descent into Hell that survived because generations of Christians kept reading it.

• ISBN: 9798192739709
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp