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Priest and Dominican of the Saint-Thomas-d'Aquinas convent in Toulouse, Renaud Silly has a doctorate in theology from the University of Friborg (Switzerland). He teaches at the French Biblical and Archaeological School in Jerusalem.
Rome justified its empire over the Mediterranean peoples by guaranteeing them civil peace, the famous
pax romana.
His ability to maintain it was the main criterion for assessing the competence of a Roman magistrate. Even if the situation deteriorated in the 50s and 60s until the outbreak of the Jewish War in 66, Judea was already thirty years earlier a tumultuous province where revolts against the occupier alternated with civil wars. From the point of view of Pontius Pilate, Jesus poses a problem of public order:
“he achieved nothing, but the situation turned into revolt”
(Mt 27:24).
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