The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (919 page)

(Heb., ‘lifting and rolling’). The ceremonial elevating and rolling up of the
Torah
scroll
in the
synagogue
.

 
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(Heb., ‘telling’; equivalent to
aggadah
, and often used in that general sense). The order of service prescribed for the Jewish
Passover
seder
.
Extra songs, poetry, and elaborations have been added to the original Haggadah over the years and, since the time of
Rashi
, commentaries on the text have been produced. The
progressive
movements have produced their own versions, amending the text in accordance with their own theology, and there is also a
Karaite
version.

 
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Haggai
.

Post-
exilic
Jewish
prophet
. The prophecies contained in Haggai can be dated to 520 BCE (the second year of King Darius) and are concerned primarily with the reconstruction of the Temple.

 
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Hag ha-keves
(Doenmeh festival)
:

see
DOENMEH
.

 
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Hagia Sofia
,
Aya Sofya, or Sancta Sophia

(‘Divine Wisdom’) The mosque, originally basilica or church of the Divine Wisdom, in Istanbul. It was commissioned in the 6th cent. by the emperor Justinian after the second church on the site (founded in 452 by Theodosius II) had been razed to the ground in the Nika revolts of Jan. 532. In the late 16th cent. as part of a restoration process, minarets were added by the architect S
h
n (see
SULAIM
N THE MAGNIFICENT
). The last extensive restoration was commissioned by Sultan Abdul Mecit in 1847, and the Aya Sofia continued to function as a mosque until 1932 when it was opened as a museum.

 
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