Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!!

[indianasmith]

I love this!  I think the cover alone is going to sell some books!!!

[lester1/2jr]

nice

[Allhallowsday]

Looks great.  An incidental Christ with Pilate's face obscured, perhaps, pleading for Him.  And of course, the Blood spilt. 
Congratulations. 

[indianasmith]

The painting is a famous work from the Renaissance entitled "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man!").

[lester1/2jr]

Pilate was evidently a very brutal guy. You wonder how much of the humanization in the gospels was just to make the Jews look that much worse.

[indianasmith]

In researching my book, I found that there are only six sources that mention Pilate as anything more than a footnote:
the four Gospels, and the Jewish accounts composed by Philo and Josephus.  While both of them portray him as a monster,
it's worth noting that Josephus was writing some 50 years later, in the court of the Flavian emperors, where bashing the
Julio-Claudians and their subordinates was highly fashionable.  Philo was closer to the time frame in question, but he was
living in Alexandria and was also pretty biased.  Judea was a tough province to govern, and Pilate was tough as nails, no
doubt. But was he a monster?  Or just the agent of a monstrous system?

I would LOVE to get some feedback from the forum members on this one when it comes out!

[ER]

If everyone requested the local library buy a copy, I bet we could put quite a few sales in indy's corner.

[Allhallowsday]

In researching my book, I found that there are only six sources that mention Pilate as anything more than a footnote:
the four Gospels, and the Jewish accounts composed by Philo and Josephus.  While both of them portray him as a monster,
it's worth noting that Josephus was writing some 50 years later, in the court of the Flavian emperors, where bashing the
Julio-Claudians and their subordinates was highly fashionable.  Philo was closer to the time frame in question, but he was
living in Alexandria and was also pretty biased.  Judea was a tough province to govern, and Pilate was tough as nails, no
doubt. But was he a monster?  Or just the agent of a monstrous system?

I would LOVE to get some feedback from the forum members on this one when it comes out!

Have you read INFERNO by LARRY NIVEN and JERRY POURNELLE?  It's a wonderful "speculative" novel, or, "fantasy" about redemption. 

[indianasmith]

It sure sounds familiar.
I remember reading Robert Heinlein's JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE back in the 80's and being fascinated and a bit offended at the same time.

I also read one called BEHOLD THE MAN and was completely offended by it! LOL

[Allhallowsday]

It sure sounds familiar.
I remember reading Robert Heinlein's JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE back in the 80's and being fascinated and a bit offended at the same time.

I also read one called BEHOLD THE MAN and was completely offended by it! LOL

There is a deep Christianity at the core of INFERNO.  I won't reveal "the secret" of INFERNO but say it is about redemption.  How are the irredeemable redeemable?  Only in Christianity that I have found. 

[indianasmith]

I'll have to check it out then.  When was it published?

[Allhallowsday]

I'll have to check it out then.  When was it published?

1976 I think; probably still in print.  Don't read the capsule synopsis if you want to appreciate the wonderful revelation of redemption during your own read:
http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Larry-Niven/dp/0765316765/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431098920&sr=1-1&keywords=inferno+larry+niven+and+jerry+pournelle

[Rev. Powell]

I'm hoping to have cool cover art for my new book to share soon... but I will keep you in suspense.