The politarchs of Thessalonica
The unusual civic title Acts uses for Thessalonica's magistrates is the title the city's own inscriptions use.
Vom Boden bestätigtInschrift1st century BC – 2nd century AD
Acts says Paul's accusers dragged Jason before the "politarchs" of the city — a title found in no classical literary text, and once treated as Luke's mistake. Inscriptions from Macedonia have since produced dozens of examples of exactly that office, in exactly that region.
…they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city.
- Gefunden
- Thessalonica and Macedonia, Greece — Recorded from the nineteenth century onward; dozens now known
- Heute in
- Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and others
- Sprache
- Greek
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
This confirms the terminology and the local setting, not the episode.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A standard example in classical epigraphy of inscriptions supplying an office absent from literary sources.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Horsley, "The Politarchs", in The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting (1994)
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