Title: There is No Salvation Without a Name
Subtitle: Claudia Procula's Afterlives
Subject Classification:  Religion and Faith, Literature and Literary Criticism  
BIC Classification: HR, HRC, DS
BISAC Classification: LIT020000, LIT025050, REL006710
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Aug 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-385-9
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-386-6

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Description

In the episode of Jesus before Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea (Matthew 27:11-26), a chapter that recounts a dream of his wife compels the reader to probe the latent meanings of the text, and calls for an explanation, as it serves as a source of opacity in the narrative.

Confronted with the message relayed by the servant, according to which Pilate should distance himself from Christ, because His appearance in a nocturnal vision disturbed his wife, one might ask: why should the dream cause distress in the woman? Does the vision foretell the death of Christ? Or does it anticipate the future lives of Pilate and his wife? Why, on the day that will prove crucial for the history of humanity, does the woman choose to send a message to her husband, possibly aware that it will not be heeded? Finally, why did Matthew decide to include this reference to the vision in his account of the Passion?

The answers to these questions give rise to the character of Pilate’s wife, Claudia Procula, who would achieve great prominence in the Western imagination, from the apocryphal gospels to the present day.

Despite the existence of several essays on Claudia, and numerous published novels, a comprehensive literary-critical analysis of this character remains absent. This book aims to trace the evolution of Claudia Procula in Western literature from a comparative perspective, spanning the period from early Christianity to modernity.

Biography

Author(s):  Emilia Di Rocco is a professor of comparative literature at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

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