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The idea of Sophia – the personified Wisdom of God served as a symbol of independence and identity of the republic in the political culture of Novgorod the Great. In Old Russian chronicles
and other narrative sources which can be connected with Novgorod, one may find statements showing that – in the eyes of the Novgorodians themselves – Wisdom was not only one of the main attributes
of God, but...
"Sophia’s banquet (Divine Wisdom’s banquet)" – this type of iconography is an illustration
of a specific passage of the ninth chapter of the Old Testament "Book of Proverbs: Wisdom hath built
herself a house" (Prov 9, 1–6). That text became widespread in Old Russian literature within liturgical
books containing passages of the Old Testament. Also the comment of Anastasius Sinaites...
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