# Sophia Scriptura

> A free reference library for studying the Bible by what its authors meant: early church writings in Greek and Latin with fresh English translations, exact edition references, and ready-made citations.

Sophia Scriptura is produced by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, under the direction of an anonymous editor. Every translation is a Claude translation made from the original Greek or Latin, and every original text names the edition it was taken from, with volume and page or column (e.g. "Lake, LCL 24:272"; Migne as "PG 5:868a"). Uncertain dates, places, and attributions are marked as uncertain.

## Sections

- [Early church writings](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/): Writings of the early church in the original Greek and Latin, with Claude translations, edition references, and SBL citations.
- [About](https://sophiascriptura.com/about/): how the site is made, sources, license, and how to cite it.

## How pages are organized

- Each citable passage has one permanent URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/<work-id>/<chapter>/<section>/ (e.g. https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/5/2/).
- Each passage page has a Markdown version at the same URL plus "index.md".
- Passage pages carry schema.org JSON-LD with the original text, translation, translator, and citation.

## Works

- [Didache](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/) (Did.), ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100); 101 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [1 Clement](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/) (1 Clem.), ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100); 400 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [Epistle of Barnabas](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/) (Barn.), ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130); 194 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [2 Clement](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/) (2 Clem.), ca. 100–150; 118 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To Polycarp](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/) (Ign. Pol.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 22 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Ephesians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-ephesians/) (Ign. Eph.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 48 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Magnesians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-magnesians/) (Ign. Magn.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 26 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Philadelphians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-philadelphians/) (Ign. Phld.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 24 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Romans](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-romans/) (Ign. Rom.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 29 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Smyrnaeans](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-smyrnaeans/) (Ign. Smyrn.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 29 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Trallians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-trallians/) (Ign. Trall.), ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135); 30 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To the Philippians](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pol-philippians/) (Pol. Phil.), ca. 110–135; 38 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 24
- [To Diognetus](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/diognetus/) (Diogn.), ca. 150–200 (disputed); 100 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 25
- [Martyrdom of Polycarp](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/mart-pol/) (Mart. Pol.), ca. 156–160; 54 passages; Greek text: Lake, LCL 25

## How to cite

Every reference follows The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed. Use the footnote shown on each passage page (BibTeX and RIS are linked there too), for example:
Ign. Pol. 5.2 (PG 5:724a–724b; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ign-polycarp/5/2/).

## Data and license

- Site content (translations, notes, data): public domain (CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Free to use for any purpose; no attribution required.
- Original texts: public domain or openly licensed editions, as noted per work. The Greek of the Apostolic Fathers is 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), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Scripture shown with verse searches: the Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Machine-readable data: https://sophiascriptura.com/data/idx/manifest.json lists the JSON files used by the site search; https://sophiascriptura.com/data/idx/text/<work-id>.json holds each work's original text and translation by passage. Bulk downloads with a schema README are planned.

## Contact

- Corrections: sophiascriptura.com@gmail.com