The "first man" of Malta
The odd title Acts gives the leading man of Malta is the title Malta's own inscriptions use for that office.
Vom Boden bestätigtInschrift1st–2nd century AD
Acts calls Publius, who received Paul's shipwrecked party, "the chief man of the island" — in Greek, prōtos. Inscriptions from Malta use exactly that word, and its Latin equivalent primus, as the title of the island's leading official.
…the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
- Gefunden
- Malta — Recorded from the eighteenth century onward
- Heute in
- National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta
- Sprache
- Greek and Latin
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The office is attested; no inscription names this Publius.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A standard note in commentaries and in the epigraphy of Roman Malta.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History (1989)
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