About Sophia Scriptura

Sophia Scriptura is Greek and Latin for "wisdom from Scripture." It echoes the timeless call to find and receive the wisdom contained in Scripture (Prov 1:20-33, 7:4-5, and 8; 2 Tim 3:16). This wisdom is found by pursuing the original authorial intent of the biblical writers. It also echoes the famous phraseSola Scriptura, which is Latin for Scripture alone. That phrase is the cry of Protestantism over against assertions that tradition or church authority are effectively at the level of Scriptural authority. However, regardless of one's tradition, finding the original authorial intent of Scripture is immensely valuable for all. The deliverables on this site are designed to aid us in our search for that original, profound, and inspired meaning.

Reporting an error

If you find a mistake in a text, translation, date, or reference, please email [email protected]. Every passage also has a “Report an error” link (under “Notes and citation”) that fills in the passage reference for you.

Using this content

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Every passage has a short permanent link of the form sophiascriptura.com/p/<work>/<reference>(for example /p/ign-polycarp/5-2). These links never change, even if a reading page is reorganized; each one forwards to the passage.

Greek text of the Apostolic Fathers: Kirsopp Lake’s Loeb edition (1912–1913, public domain), in the digital transcription of the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), used underCC BY-SA 4.0. Where we corrected a slip in that digital text, the passage’s notes say so.
English Bible verses shown with verse searches: theBerean Standard Bible (public domain).
Short meanings in the word lookup (the popup on a Greek or Latin word): Liddell–Scott–Jones,A Greek–English Lexicon, and Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary, in the digital editions of thePerseus Digital Library(PerseusDL/lexica), used underCC BY-SA 4.0; the short meanings drawn from them (Greek and Latin data files) are shared under the same license. Brief New Testament meanings come from Jeffrey Dodson’s Greek lexicon (public domain, CC0). Dictionary forms and parsing were made with Stanza and LatinCy and may contain errors.

Data downloads

Every published work can be downloaded whole, as Markdown or JSON, with its citations as BibTeX and RIS. The data and coverage page lists each work, how complete it is, the edition of its text, and the file formats.

AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can also look things up in the library directly through a read-only connector; Use with AI assistants explains how to add it.

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