L’INTERVENTO DI AGRIPPA II NEL PROCESSO DI PAOLO DI TARSO E LA REMISSIO DI GESÙ AL TETRARCA DI GALILEA : ERMENEUTICA STORICO-GIURIDICA DI UNA SÝNKRISIS

Abstract

The paper examines selected aspects of the account of Paul of Tarsus’ trial – focusing in particular on the hearing before Herod
Agrippa II and Berenice (Acts 25:23–26:32) – with the aim of evaluating, in the light of epigraphic and papyrological evidence,
their historical plausibility and their consistency with the criminal procedure in force in the Greek-speaking provinces of the
first century CE. It then investigates the specific textual parallels with the remissio of Jesus to the tetrarch of Galilee (Luke 23:6–
12), arguing that the Lukan account is dependent on the episode in the Acts of the Apostles through the literary device of sýnkrisis.
This conclusion is further corroborated by the lack of any independent traditional basis for the involvement of Herod Antipas in
the trial of Jesus, as well as by its limited plausibility from a historical and legal perspective.

KEYWORDS : Processo di Paolo di Tarso; Agrippa II; Appellatio ad Cesarem; Lex de Templo Hierosolymitano; sýnkrisis.