Open Question: Did you know that the story of Pilate washing his hands is fiction because only Caiaphas would have done

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Open Question: Did you know that the story of Pilate washing his hands is fiction because only Caiaphas would have done

I just discovered this on Naked Archaeologist! It's a Jewish custom to ritually wash your hands like that. He says that Paul made the Jews responsible in this depiction based on his own personal opinion. He never liked those guys, I guess. He may not have known what antisemitism it would create.

Posted on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:38:30 GMT at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...830AAkdIjf

10-06-2008 06:17 PM

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