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.
Confirmado por el terrenoInscripción1st–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.
- Hallado
- Malta — Recorded from the eighteenth century onward
- Se conserva en
- National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta
- Lengua
- Greek and Latin
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
The office is attested; no inscription names this Publius.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
A standard note in commentaries and in the epigraphy of Roman Malta.
En la Escritura
Se relaciona con
Fuentes
- Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History (1989)
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