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    Hagia Sophia

    November 26,
    A decent history published in traces Hagia Sophia through Byzantine glory, attack bygd the Crusaders, conquest by the Turks and eventual conversion to a secular museum. Of interest is the appendix highlighting the Hagia Sophia in literature. Procopius writes in A.D. of the columns and marbles, "One might imagine that he had komma upon a meadow with its flowers in full bloom. For he would surely marvel at the purple of some, the green tint of others and at those on which the crimson flows and those from which the white flashes, and again at those which naturlig eller utan tillsats , like some painter, varies with the most contrasting colours. And whenever anyone enters this church to pray, he understands at once that it is not by any human power or skill, but the influence of God, that is work has been so finely turned." Other visitors' voices include: a French knight, Robert of Clari (c. ); Ibn-Battuta, devout Muslum traveler (); Spanish nobleman Pero Tafur (c. ); Evliya Chelebi, p

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    Wisdom Has Built Her House

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    Wisdom Has Built Her House brings together for the first time the collected studies of Silvia Schroer on the biblical figure of Sophia, divine Wisdom.

    Schroer presents a differentiated image of Wisdom as female, creator, teacher, profet, beloved, and more. In Wisdom Has Built Her House Schroer portrays Wisdom as a cosmic ordering principle, as universal architect, and as mediator of all scientific knowledge. Schroer also inquires about the contexts of these writings: about feminine wisdom and women's roles after the Babylonian exile, about the goddess traditions behind the idea of Sophia, and about their significance within a monotheistic symbol system. Schroer then follows the tradition of God imaged as Wisdom to the time of the Jesus- movement and the first Christian communities.

    Teachers, students, and those looking for a well-reasoned study of personified Wisdom—and reasons for reinvisioning our own

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    Sophia: Wisdom of God

    Tuesday, November 7,

    God as Us: Week 1

    Sophia: Wisdom of God
    Tuesday, November 7,

    Theologian Marcus Borg’s study of Scripture reveals many female metaphors for God. Here he shows how God’s wisdom was invariably presented as a woman:

    The most fully developed female biblical image for God is in the wisdom literature of ancient Israel—in Proverbs and in two books of the Apocrypha [books included in the Catholic and Episcopal Bibles, but not in most Protestant versions], namely [The Book of] Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) and the Wisdom of Solomon. In these, “the wisdom of God” is often personified as a woman. Scholars now commonly refer to this personification as “Sophia,” the Greek word for wisdom.

    In Proverbs 8, Sophia speaks of herself. She was with God before creation, and she was the master worker through whom God created (see especially ). In Sirach 24, she is from eternity and fills all that is.

    In the Wisdom of Solomon , she is “the fashioner” a