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, prophet, 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 images of God - will find this in Wisdom Has Built Her House.Chapters are Wisdom on the Path of Righteousness (Proverbs 8:20)," "Divine Wisdom and Postexilic Monotheism," "Wise Women and Counselors in Israel: Models for Personified Hokma," "'And When the Next War Began . . .' The Wise Woman of Abel of Beth-maacah (2 Samuel 20:14-22)," "Abigail: A Wise Woman Works for Peace," "The One Lord and Male Dominance in the Book of Jesus Sirach: The Image of Woman and the Image of Wisdom in a Misogynist Document," "Personified Sophia in the Book of Wisdom," "Jesus Sophia," and "The Spirit, Wisdom, and the Dove."

Wisdom Has Built Her House: Studies on the Figure of Sophia in the Bible

Literature & Fiction

Schröer, Silvia

History & Criticism

Liturgical Press

Many people with illnesses seek healing in religions and practices that are only weakly inculturated among us. Our understanding and use of such foreign wisdom is often just as superficial; but it is easily understood against the background of a centuries-long Christian tradition of interpreting the Bible in a way hostile to the body, particularly the female body. In Body Symbolism in the Bible, Schroer and Staubli offer a better understanding of this subject by exploring the symbolism of various body parts in the Bible. They reinterpret and thereby reclaim the notion of the body as a temple of God so that regard for the body can lead to respect for the human rights of women and men. Exploring the topic through the lenses of theological anthropology and biblical spirituality, their presentation will surely add clarity to our understanding and generate future discussion. Richly illustrated in full color.

Body Symbolism in the Bible (Scripture)

Religion & Spirituality

Staubli, Thomas

Christian Books & Bibles

Othmar Keel has become well known as the author of masterly studies on the iconography and texts of the ANE and their relationship to the text of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, he partners with Silvia Schroer to assemble ANE texts and art that bears on the idea of creation. The result is a convenient assemblage of texts and iconographical data that may be studied in concert, often leading to being able to see old texts in new ways. As with much of this Swiss scholar’s work, this new volume will prove to be a resource for all who wish to study the biblical theology of creation against its wider background.

Creation: Biblical Theologies in the Context of the Ancient Near East

History

Keel, Othmar

Ancient Civilizations

Eisenbrauns

Sexualisierte Gewalt in kirchlichen Kontexten: Neue interdisziplinäre Perspektiven (German Edition)

Wirth, Mathias

Noth, Isabelle

World

de Gruyter

Tene, nine, eight - the fox says good night: picture book from 3 years

Children's Books

Schwarz, Silke

Animals

Penguin Junior

Mit Band 4 wird das umfangreiche Kompendium zur Religionsgeschichte Palastinas/Israels auf Basis ikonographischer Funde abgeschlossen. Dieser Band mit annahernd tausend weiteren Objekten widmet sich der Eisenzeit bis zum Beginn der Achamenidenherrschaft. Das Gesamtwerk IPIAO umfasst damit fast zweitausend Objekte ab dem 12. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Konsequent werden Bilder aus Palastina/Israel mit solchen der Nachbarkulturen korreliert und zur Rekonstruktion des zugrundeliegenden religiosen Symbolsystems beigezogen. Das Projekt ist in seiner Art einmalig. Nie zuvor wurde die gesamte Bildkunst Palastinas/Israels - von ihren Anfangen an und in Bezug auf den Alten Orient - in ahnlicher Weise als Katalog prasentiert und mit ubersichtlichen Einleitungen zu Kulturgeschichte, Themen der Bildkunst und biblischen Bezugen angereichert.

Die Ikonographie Palastinas/Israels Und Der Alte Orient. Eine Religionsgeschichte in Bildern (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

5chwabe

Die Ikonographie Palastinas/Israels Und Der Alte Orient. Eine Religionsgeschichte in Bildern: Bande 1-4 / Band 1: Vom Ausgehenden Mesolithikum Bis Zur ... Achamenidischen Herrschaft (German Edition)

Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag

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