REPORT IN CPL

Report by Group 10
Augustan Cohort
- This title which occurs in Acts 27:1 has occasioned much speculation. A cohort was normally a tenth part of a
legion and was itself divided into six centuries, each under a centurion. A cohort, therefore, comprised 600 men. In
the auxiliary troops the cohorts were the basic unit of division and each numbered 500 or 1,000 men. Each bore
some honorific title such as Gallica or fidelis , and they were commanded by prefects or tribunes.
Adramyttium
- Was an ancient city and bishopric Aeolis, in modern-day Turkey. It was originally located at the head of the
Gulf of Adramyttium, on the river Caicus in the Plain of Thebe, 4 kilometers west of the modern town of
Burhaniye, but later moved 13 kilometers northeast to its current location and became known as Edremit.
Aristarchus of Thessalonica
- A Greek Macedonian of Thessalonica, was an early Christian mentioned in a few passages of the New
Testament. He accompanied Saint Paul on his journey to Rome. Along with Gaius, another Macedonian,
Aristarchus returned with Paul from Greece to Asia. At Caeserea, he embarked with Paul on a ship of
Edremit (Adramyttium) bound for Myra in Lycia, whether he traveled with him from there to Rome is
not recorded. Aristarchus is described as Paul’s “fellow prisoner” and “fellow laborer” in Colossians
4:10 and Philemon 1:24 respectively.
Cilicia
- Is the ancient Roman name for the southeastern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It is referenced in
the biblical book of Acts and Galatians, was the birthplace of Saint Paul, and the site of his early evangelical
missions. The territory was first inhabited in the Neolithic Period c. 8 th millennium BCE and was under Hittite
control by the 2nd millennium BCE before passing to the Assyrians, gaining its independence after the fall of the
Assyrian Empire in 612 BCE, and was taken by the Persians before the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333
BCE. After Alexander, the region became Hellenized and politically aligned Syria which is why some major
Cilician cities such as Tarsus are often identified as Syrian in ancient texts.
Pamphylia
- Was a former region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the
Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). It was bounded on the north by
Pisidia and was therefore a country of small extent, having a coast-line of only about 120 km (75 miles) with
a breadth of about 50 km (30 miles). Under the Roman administration the term Pamphylia was extended so as
to include Pisidia and the whole tract up the frontiers of Phrygia and Lycaonia, and in this wilder sense it is
Myra in Lycia
- Was an Ancient Greek, then Roman Greek, then Byzantine Greek, then Ottoman Greek town in Lycia, which
became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of Turkey
Lycia
- A geopolitical region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Mugla on the southern coast of
Turkey, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and Burdur Province inland. Known to history since the records of
ancient Egypt and the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age, it was populated by speakers of the Luwian
language group
Cnidus
- A city of Caria in the Roman province of Asia, past which, according to Acts 27:7, Paul sailed. At the Southwest
corner of Asia Minor there projects for 90 miles into the sea a long, narrow peninsula, practically dividing the
Aegean from the Mediterranean. It now bears the name of Cape Crio. Ships sailing along the southern coast of
Asia Minor here turn northward as they round the point. Upon the very end of peninsula, and also upon a small
island off its point was the city of Cnidus. The island which in ancient times was connected with the mainland by a
causeway is now joined to it by a sandy bar. Thus were formed two harbors, one of which could be closed by a
chain.
Crete
- Is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the
world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia,
Cyprus, and Corcisa. It bounds the southern border of the Aegean Sea. Crete lies
approximately 160 km (99 mi) south of the Greek mainland. It has an area of 8,336
(3,219 sq mi) and a coastline of 1,046 km (650 mi).
Fair Havens
- “Kali Limenes”, the Greek name that translates “Fair Havens”, is situated on the
southern coast of Crete. Fair Havens lies under the lee of Crete; it would have been
“unsuitable to winter in”, and it is located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of
Lasea. The harbor is formed by a gradually curving shoreline that runs east and
southwest. It did not shelter ships from the wind in every direction. The harbor’s
shape sheltered ships from the northwestern wind, but other than a few offshore
islets, it was unprotected from the sea. There does not seem to have been any town
at the harbor, which is probably why Luke mentions it being near the town of Lasea.
Lasea
- A town on the South coast of Crete. 5 miles East of Fair Havens. If Paul’s ship was
detained long at this anchorage, it would be necessary to purchase stores from Lasea;
and this in addition to the inconvenience of the roadstead would probably explain the
captain’s reluctance to winter there.
Northeaster
- Is a macro-scale extratropical cyclone in the western Atlantic Ocean. The name
derives from the direction of the strongest winds that will be hitting an eastern
seaboard of the northern hemisphere: as a cyclonic air mass rotates counterclockwise,
winds tend blow northeast-to-southwest over the region covered by the northern
quadrant of the cyclone.
Adriatic Sea
- Is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from
the Strait of Otranto (where it connects the Ionian Sea) to the northwest and the Po
Valley. The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are Albania, Bosnia, and
Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, and Slovenia. The Adriatic contains over
1,300 islands, mostly located along the Croatian part of its eastern coast.
Malta
- Officially known as the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country
consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea known as St. Paul’s Island. St.
Paul’s Island also known as Selmunett, is a small island off Selmun near the north-east of
the main island of Malta. Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its
location in the center of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic
importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers being contested. Malta has a
long Christian legacy and its Archdiocese is claimed to be an apostolic see because Paul
the Apostle was shipwrecked on “Melita”, according to Acts of the Apostles, which is
now widely taken to be Malta.
Jews
- Are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of
historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion of the Jewish people,
while its observance to complete nonobservance. Jews originated as an ethnic and religious
group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, in the part of the Levant
known as the Land of Israel. The Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a
people of Israel somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13 th century BCE (Late Bronze
Age). The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold
with the emergence of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Judea
- Is the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name
of the mountainous southern part of the region of Palestine. It is also the ancient name of the
mountainous surrounding Jerusalem. Its location falls in present-day Israel and the Palestinian West
Bank. The name originates from the Hebrew name Yehudah, a son of the Jewish patriarch Jacob/Israel,
and Yehudah’s progeny forming the biblical Israelite tribe of Judah (Yehudah) and later the associated
Kingdom of Judah.
Gentiles
- Is an ethnonym that commonly means non-Jew according to Judaism. Meaning in
general all nations except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and more to
pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it acquired unpleasant associations, and was
used as a term of contempt. Other groups claim Israelite heritage sometimes use the term
to describe outsiders. The original words “goy” and “ethnos” refer to “peoples” or
“nations” and are applied to both Israelites and non-Israelites.