Book of Proverbs

A mystical depiction of Sophia from Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, Altona, 1785.

Sophia In Gnosticism

Sophia In Gnosticism Sophia (“Wisdom“, “the Sophia”) is a major theme, along with Knowledge (gnosis, Coptic sooun), among many of the early Christian knowledge-theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as gnostikos, “learned”. Gnosticism is a 17th-century term expanding the definition of Irenaeus’ groups to include other syncretic and mystery religions. In gnosticism, Sophia is a...

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Book Of Proverbs

Book Of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (מִשְלֵי, Míshlê (Shlomoh), “Proverbs (of Solomon)”) is the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became...