- Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. Facebook | Twitter | Academia.edu.
jewishphilosophy place @ Facebook
-
Recent Posts
- Substance & Tactics at JVP (Response to Mira Sucharov)
- That Empty Church in Rural Maryland
- Anti-Semitism & the Left in France: The Jewish Question Is a European Question (Corey Robin)
- Temple Mount Holocaust Offering
- Deleuze Leibniz Cosmogenesis
- Rabbi Eliezer Sadan (Rav Eli Sadan) – His Hands Remained Steady
- Green Country Churches (Darlington, MD)
- MD543 (Between MD440 and US1)
- Spot the Churches (Ocean Parkway)
- (Abstract Bodies) Balls or Columns or Cubes (Resurrection) (Maimonides)
- Pagan Rabbis of the Mishnah (Jacob Neusner)
- The Place of Connection, A Form of Relationship (Distinct But Inseparable) (Deleuze)
- Everyone Died & Went to Heaven Except a Few Passerby & A Dumb Little Dog (Upper West Side Ghost Town)
- (At the Intersectional Left) JVP Targets The Bad Jews
- Jay Z, Jews, and “All the Property” (Financial Independence) (4:44)
- Peace or Pluralism? Which Would You Choose?
- Western Wall Fetish Object
- (2 Comments) Dyke March Statement on Zionism
- (Dyke March) No Public Judaism (Ellie Otra)
- Exclusionary Imperatives (Ailing American Judaism Today)
- (Pink) Statue of Liberty (Sundown)
- (Wicked) Radical Affects (Spinoza)
- (Reckless Mind) Philosophers & Politics (Mark Lilla)
- The Murder of Philando Castile & Teaching Cops To Kill (Dave Grossman)
- Bright Light on Hudson River (Deleuze)
- (Shipwrecked Minds) Religion & Political Reaction (Mark Lilla)
- (Art of Empire) Porous Fired Bodies (Qin and Han)
- Loose Texture and Bovine Sympathy (Isaiah Berlin)
- (Deleuze & Guattari) Jews + Jews + Jews (Cynthia Baker)
- Truth, Justice, and the American Way (James Comey)
- aesthetics affect American Judaism ancient Near East animals anti-Semitism architecture art BDS Bible blog body Buber and Rosenzweig Buddhism China Christianity cinema cosmopolitanism Deleuze ephemera ethics France Gaza gender God Heidegger Heschel Holocaust Husserl image in-the-car India Islam Israel Jerusalem Jewish Philosophy Jewish Studies Judaism Kabbalah-Hasidut law Levinas liberalism literature Maimonides Mendelssohn messianism Mordecai Kaplan Museums & Galleries music nature New York obama object Palestine parks & gardens Passover philosophy photography politics race reason religion religion and science ritual science secularism Shabbat & holidays suffering synagogue Syracuse Syracuse University Syria talmud-midrash technology what i'm reading
Recent Comments
zjb on Anti-Semitism & the Left i… Ivanildo on Anti-Semitism & the Left i… dmf on That Empty Church in Rural… Jamie Carter on That Empty Church in Rural… dmf on Temple Mount Holocaust Of… dmf on Rabbi Eliezer Sadan (Rav Eli S… dmf on Deleuze Leibniz Cosmogenesis Berel Dov Lerner on Rabbi Eliezer Sadan (Rav Eli S… dmf on MD543 (Between MD440 and … Joe on Spot the Churches (Ocean … dmf on (Abstract Bodies) Balls or Col… dmf on Pagan Rabbis of the Mishnah (J… Adam peter on (Deleuze & Guattari) Jews… Pagan Rabbis of the… on Pagan Rabbis of the Mishnah (J… dmf on Pagan Rabbis of the Mishnah (J… Blogroll
- art21blog
- immanent frame
- Jewish Art Theory (Ben Schachter)
- justice in the city
- ottomans and zionists
- patterns that connect
- perverse egalitarianism
- philosophy and law
- radical banjo
- the book of doctrines and opinions
- The Home of Schlemiel Theory
- the magnes zionist
- the talmud blog
- then and now
- tokyo green space
Archives
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
Tag Archives: ancient Near East
(About Death) Thinking (Canaanite Figurine)
What’s on this Canaanite fellow’s mind? The main body of the decorative figurine is formed out of the neck of a Bronze Age pottery jug, to which the arms, legs, and head were added. He’s almost 4,000 years old, uncovered at … Continue reading
Watching Block Statue (Ancient Egypt Middle Kingdom)
In the Christian west, devotion tends to be identified with the erect figure of the orant who extends his or arms towards the heavens in an act of supplication. Compare in contrast this fellow from ancient Egypt, Middle Kinddom. With its … Continue reading
Fishing & Duck Hunt (Ancient Egypt Middle Kingdom)
Another little vignette of daily life in Middle Kingdom ancient Egypt. Again, to get a good sense of the liveliness of this scene, you need to zoom into the action on this smart model sporting boat. Unlike so much ancient … Continue reading
Life and Death at Work in Ancient Egypt (Middle Kingdom)
No god-like king with his calm and arrogant gaze presides over the busy and buzzing little scene of daily life at work in this Middle Kingdom ancient Egyptian slaughter house. A bird’s eye view gives a good sense of the whole, … Continue reading
Kings (Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom)
Art historians going back to Winckelmann in the 18th C. typically held up Greek art over Egyptian art. Greek art represented the apex of humanism, in contrast to Egyptian art, which was hieratic and static. Recently on view at the … Continue reading
Body Viscus Goes Inside Canopic Jars (Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom)
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these canopic jars “were made to contain the four internal organs removed during the mummification process (stomach, liver, intestines, lungs). Earlier examples had flat or domed lids, but human-headed lids were introduced by … Continue reading
(In A Box) Dead Wannabe Pharaoh (Middle Kingdom)
Such a sad thing, this dead guy stuck in a box for the rest of time with nothing to do. He’s not stretched flat on his back, in state, as it were. What accentuates the presentation of this figure’s vulnerability … Continue reading
