The politarchs of Thessalonica
The unusual civic title Acts uses for Thessalonica's magistrates is the title the city's own inscriptions use.
Підтверджено розкопкамиНапис1st 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.
- Знайдено
- Thessalonica and Macedonia, Greece — Recorded from the nineteenth century onward; dozens now known
- Зберігається
- Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and others
- Мова
- Greek
- Як це дійшло до нас
- Розкопане або досі стоїть там, де його збудували.
Що вона показує
This confirms the terminology and the local setting, not the episode.
Як це використовують історики
A standard example in classical epigraphy of inscriptions supplying an office absent from literary sources.
У Писанні
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Джерела
- Horsley, "The Politarchs", in The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting (1994)
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