The politarchs of Thessalonica
The unusual civic title Acts uses for Thessalonica's magistrates is the title the city's own inscriptions use.
Confirmado por el terrenoInscripción1st 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.
- Hallado
- Thessalonica and Macedonia, Greece — Recorded from the nineteenth century onward; dozens now known
- Se conserva en
- Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and others
- Lengua
- Greek
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
This confirms the terminology and the local setting, not the episode.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
A standard example in classical epigraphy of inscriptions supplying an office absent from literary sources.
En la Escritura
Se relaciona con
Fuentes
- Horsley, "The Politarchs", in The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting (1994)
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