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Tag Archives: nature
(Violent Surge of Excellent Writing) Habakkuk (Shavuot)
Locked up tight in the liturgical reading of Scripture in the synagogue as the haftarah on the second day of Shavuot, the holiday of revelation, the manifestation of God in the third chapter of Habbakuk signals total world disaster. In … Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawk Fledgings & Angel’s Horn (St John the Divine)
Would someone versed in Christian/Episcopal iconography please help me identify the angel on the back end of the roof of St John the Divine overlooking Morningside Drive down below. The cathedral being St John, is the angel one of the … Continue reading
Affect & Potential (Aristotle)
When defining affect, many will go back to Spinoza, the capacity for being affected. More useful perhaps is this from Aristotle which I think should be read in tandem with this bit on potentiality. The first puts the emphasis on alteration, … Continue reading
Opera & Landscape (David Hockney)
A musical painter or a painter of music, David Hockney painted landscapes and operatic sets –and they are glorious. The first painting that I have posted above is a view on a drive on the hilly Pacific Highway with Los … Continue reading
Religion, Things, Idea, Sensation (Reading Max Müller)
In putting together the syllabus for my graduate seminar, I decided to add the almost but never quite long forgotten Max Müller to his rightful place in the canon of classical theories and methods in the study of Religion. I … Continue reading
Genesis (Earth Grassing Grasses, Seed Seeding Plants, Fruit Making Fruit Trees)
I spent some time staring at the Hebrew in synagogue this week, particularly vivid, but lost in translation. Earth being the active subject of Genesis 1:11-12 requires peculiar linguistic convolutions. 11…T’dashe ha’aretz deshe esev mazriah zerah etz pri osheh … Continue reading
Pagan Rabbis of the Mishnah (Jacob Neusner)
Against history and messianic end-times, Jewish philosophy might want to take note that at the conclusion of a discussion of the Order of Appointed Seasons (Seder Moed) of the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner describes these pagan rabbis. Their world picture is … Continue reading
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