Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agoWhat’s something you did once and immediately thought, ‘Yeah, never again’?message-squaremessage-square174fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down10
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s something you did once and immediately thought, ‘Yeah, never again’?Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square174fedilink
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoSupposedly Pilate pissed off the Jewish population repeatedly in his governorship by pushing Roman religion and minting coins with non-Jewish imagery, so I think we can safely say he wasn’t Jewish and was presumably Greco-Roman or Mithraic. https://coinsite.com/the-pontius-pilate-coinage/ Not being a literal expert on the topic I’m not sure whether the imagery used implies one but not the other. Definitely not Jewish though!
Supposedly Pilate pissed off the Jewish population repeatedly in his governorship by pushing Roman religion and minting coins with non-Jewish imagery, so I think we can safely say he wasn’t Jewish and was presumably Greco-Roman or Mithraic.
https://coinsite.com/the-pontius-pilate-coinage/
Not being a literal expert on the topic I’m not sure whether the imagery used implies one but not the other.
Definitely not Jewish though!