Very pleased to be giving a lecture at California State University next month on my 2021 book, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate. -- More to come.
Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury
Postdoctoral fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author of The Space of Time (2014), Platonic Legislations (2017), The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (2021), and Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature (2021). Regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.
Nemesius of Emesa in Berkeley
Very pleased to be giving a seminar next month at the University of California, Berkeley, on a Syrian philosopher-bishop of late antiquity, Nemesius of Emesa. More to come --
Oxford to publish “I Judge No One”
I am very pleased to hear that my Hurst book on Jesus (out in London, in December '22) will also be an Oxford University Press book (out in New York, in March '23).
Praise for “I Judge No One”: Andrew Roberts
"Shrewd, well-written & penetrating analyses of some of the greatest mysteries of Mankind ... gleaned from a profound knowledge of the gospels." -- advance praise for I Judge No One from Andrew Roberts FRSL FRHistS, author of Napoleon the Great & many other bestselling biographies
Praise for “I Judge No One”: Guy Stroumsa
Good words from the estimable Guy Stroumsa on my new book: "This fresh, insightful understanding of the figure of Jesus succeeds in turning the tables... The work of Giorgio Agamben on Paul is perhaps the closest parallel I can think of."
“Religion of the heart”: Geoffrey Hill
Religion of the heart, with trysts & quests & pangs of consolation - Geoffrey Hill Geoffrey Hill, 1984
Correcting the proofs: “I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus” (Hurst, 2022)
Bruckner’s “Stille Betrachtung an einem Herbstabend”
In anticipation of October evenings, Bruckner's gorgeous little autumn nocturne ---
“I Judge No One” in Hurst Catalogue: Autumn-Winter 2022
Great to see the Autumn-Winter Hurst Catalogue in print, in DC. I Judge No One is featured on p 16: "How can the narratives of the gospels, & their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of a deeply spiritual figure?" Out in December.
R. E. Winn on The Innocence of Pontius Pilate
Very pleased to see that a noted historian of early Christianity (& author of an excellent book on Eusebius of Emesa), R. E. Winn, has called The Innocence of Pontius Pilate "unique and incisive", "necessary reading [on] the influence of the Christian tradition on western society".
D. L. Dusenbury 