The politarchs of Thessalonica
The unusual civic title Acts uses for Thessalonica's magistrates is the title the city's own inscriptions use.
Подтверждено раскопкамиНадпись1st 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.
- Найдено
- Thessalonica and Macedonia, Greece — Recorded from the nineteenth century onward; dozens now known
- Хранится
- Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and others
- Язык
- Greek
- Как это дошло до нас
- Раскопано или до сих пор стоит там, где было построено.
Что она показывает
This confirms the terminology and the local setting, not the episode.
Как это используют историки
A standard example in classical epigraphy of inscriptions supplying an office absent from literary sources.
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Источники
- Horsley, "The Politarchs", in The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting (1994)
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