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Pilate was known for his cruelty. Scripture says:
There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus? 3 I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. (Luke 13:1-3)
Philo, a contemporary, first-century Jew, mentions Pilate’s “corruption, and his acts of insolence, and his rapine, and his habit of insulting people, and his cruelty, and his continual murders of people untried and uncondemned, and his never ending, and gratuitous, and most grievous inhumanity.” (Philo, XXXVIIIEmbassy.)
The Boaz character reminds me of the contemporary or nearly contemporary group known as Sicarii. The Wikipedia article on “Sicarii” says in part:
Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius “dagger-men”, in Modern Hebrew rendered siqariqim סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group[1] of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea.[2] The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers, concealed in their cloaks, hence their name.[3] At public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack Romans or Roman sympathizers, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection.
There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus? 3 I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. (Luke 13:1-3)
Philo, a contemporary, first-century Jew, mentions Pilate’s “corruption, and his acts of insolence, and his rapine, and his habit of insulting people, and his cruelty, and his continual murders of people untried and uncondemned, and his never ending, and gratuitous, and most grievous inhumanity.” (Philo, XXXVIIIEmbassy.)
The Boaz character reminds me of the contemporary or nearly contemporary group known as Sicarii. The Wikipedia article on “Sicarii” says in part:
Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius “dagger-men”, in Modern Hebrew rendered siqariqim סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group[1] of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea.[2] The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers, concealed in their cloaks, hence their name.[3] At public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack Romans or Roman sympathizers, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection.