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Macro Monday: Inflation, the only winner in a trade war — #SaxoStrats
- Central banks will give forex traders plenty to consider this week
- The agreement to form a grand coalition in Germany has given the euro a lift
- The poll in Italy, the third-largest Eurozone economy, could impact the euro, too
- Any trade war would drive up costs globally, sparking off a bout of inflation
- Trump's tariffs could prove to be an own goal that hurts the US economy
By Kay Van-Petersen
Summary of the prior week
- Powell: Very constructive on the US and global economy, calm and collected. KVP's perspective is that no doubt this is a Federal Reserve that is going to want to hike higher and further. Powell is seemingly unconcerned about market volatility. Let's see what he feels when markets are down 20%.
- Final manufacturing: PMIs: Slight beats on final manufacturing. PMIs out of Europe, are the opposite of what we saw on the flash estimates last week. Huge beat on US ISM manufacturing coming in at 60.8a 58.7e 59.1p. China Caixin beat
- US tariffs: US announced much-anticipated tariffs on steel and aluminium, leading to a chorus of a potential global trade war. According to Trump: "...trade wars are good, and easy to win."
- Fixed interest: US10s and bunds a touch tighter over last week It will be interesting to see bonds actually catching a bid on equities risk-off
- FX: EURUSD reversal to the upside is what really surprised a lot of people last week
- Commodities: Mixed – energy pull backs, some of the softs like wheat +7.7% had a great week
- Equities: Red across the board, India bucking the trend
- Volatilities: Again, the point we've been making, the regime in the market is changing… not just in bonds/rates but also volatilities. Post a -14% retraction two weeks back, we popped up c. +19% on the VIX to 19.60 levels
Populism on the rise ... the result of the Italian election has not yet been announced, but exit polls point to a hung parliament, and the centre-right holding the most seats. Photo: Shutterstock
Summary of week ahead
- Key focus: Serv. PMIs + US NFP|Avg. Hrly + Trade Wars Theme + European Politics
- Central Banks (SGT): RBA +1.50% e/p (6) BNM +3.25% e/p (7) BoC +1.25% e/p (7) ECB -0.40% e/p (8) BoJ -0.10%e/p (9)
- Fed speakers (SGT): Quarles (6) Dudley (6/7) Brainard (7) Kaplan (7) Bostic (7) Rosengren (10) Evans (10)
- Other (SGT): BoE's Haldane (7) RBA's Lowe (7) BoC's Poloz (9)
- Economy side: US: ISM serv. 58.9e 59.9p, End of latest round of NAFTA negotiations, Final serv. 55.9e/p, Factory orders, TB, ADP, NFP 204k e 200k p, Avg Hrly Est. 2.8%e 2.9%p, Beige Book CH: National People's Congress Session, Caixin serv. 54.3e 54.7p, TB, CPI +2.4%e 1.5%p PPI 3.8%e 4.3%p, New Loans EZ: Final serv. 56.7e/p, RS, 4QF GDP 2.7%e/p JP: BoP, 4QF GDP 1.0%e 0.5%p, UK: Serv. 53.3e 53.0p, House Prices, mfg. production, TB, IP NZ: Card Spending AU: Building approvals, BoP, RS, 4Q GDP 2.5%e 2.8%p, TB
COT report
- FX: speculators bought EUR, GBP and JPY while being modest sellers of the other six IMM currency futures. EUR net-long rose for the first time in four weeks and stood at 93% of the previous record set on January 30
- Commodities: Hedge funds increased bullish commodity bets by 9% to 2 million lots in the week to February 27. Buying was once again concentrated in grains where funds continued to cut shorts in wheat while adding fresh longs in soybeans and corn.
Thoughts on market positioning and sentiment
- Germany and Italy updates: The much anticipated Sunday arrived and is now behind us. As we anticipated – it was far from a sure thing – Germany's SPD backs new coalition, good for euro bulls, good for bund bears … brings back more political stability to the kingmaker of Europe. On Italy – consensus view is more of the same and at the end of the day Italy needs Europe, no real delta on whatever election outcomes. KVP echoes the same. New outs this Asia Monday morning suggest Berlusconi side leading the Five Star populist group in election exit results
- Trump and potential trade wars: Trump "grabs" more of his agenda. Likely be job losses from some of the measures announced last week; expect tit-for-tat which is surely to come as we have seen concerns from Canada, China and the European Union
- Key takeaway: Trump = Inflationary. We are going from:
2. Potentially kicking off a trade war globally. Tariffs and potential tit-for-tat responses are inflationary. This is on top of a Fed that is probably behind the curve. i.e. only heightens the upside risk to rates and strengthens the case for allocating to commodities and before no doubt trying to
- Inflation, inflation, inflation: – It's real and it's coming. Seeing consecutive beats globally, now watch more and more central banks pivot towards less accommodative / normalisation / more tightening stance. Will also come through at some point with the likes of the RBA: perhaps not tomorrow but almost for sure 2018.
- March 21 = Fed dots to rise
Technical outlook (James Kim)
- DXY: new one-month highs, before outside day reversal. Thursday's weakness could put USD selling pressure this week. Support at 89.52-89.20. Still expect a USD bounce to continue with a buy the dip strategy.
- EURUSD: Friday's close just below short term trendline. EUR selling is not don't yet, potential for a new low below last week's low. Would look to sell towards 1.2550.
- EURJPY: Nothing to suggest turning point and downside remains the direction. Add to shorts at 200 DMA with targets at 128
- AUDJPY: capitulation continues, however could recover from here. Hovers just above the 2017 lows, tactical longs.
- AUDUSD: three closes below 200 DMA which now offers support and selling opportunities into this. Selling bias held.
- USDJPY: Weakness persists and long term technical support violated. New 2018 lows and this looks likely to continue however very short term may see some retracement to test at short term down trend.
- S&P: Neutral now after initial retracement. How the technical picture develops from here will dictate price action, the break above or below of the two extremes from last week is key.
- ASX200: Failed to test higher. Mildly positive outlook however based off the rebound from Friday through to this morning.
- XAU: Retracement has been completed, long term bullish view now initiated with a goal of taking out the highs.
Macro Monday Books (Tactical and Strategic)
- Stopped out of our tactical long GBPJPY given the shaky week for sterling, while the yen saw lot of strength
- Gold had a quite an intra week pullback getting to around 1302.89, just a touch shy of our 1301 target. We'll continue to look to add to the short above $1340-1360 levels … as we'd like to have a sizeable position going into the March 21 Fed meeting, where we'd expect an upgrade on the dot plots
- AUDNZD had another test, yet we are slowly grinding out higher highs and higher lows…
- Trade idea thoughts (more work to be done – food for thought)
- Long-term value play on GE, seen estimates that suggest SOTP in the $10-15 range. GE closed at $14.12 on Friday March 2. Would have thought a potential bid or even rumours of one could see name lift +5% to +25%, + 1yr 15.00 strike calls would cost you under 10% in premium as you pay away $1.40 in premium for the calls. Stock is down over 50% in just the last few months, seems to be undergoing the perfect storm of pessimism, investigations and consensus bearishness. Worth noting that the stock has an indicative yield of +3.4% which may be too high or a steal… DYOR
- Herbalife hit records highs last week and is now +40% up for the year (yes a touch over two months), on the news that well known activist and Herbalife bear Bill Ackman has closed out his short after five years of pounding the table on what he believes is a Ponzi scheme. More of a potential signal that the top is in, ATM or OTM 1yr puts could be interesting…
- Need an inflationary hedge that has not run…
A replay of the call is available here
– Edited by Gayle Bryant and Rob Ryan
Kay Van Petersen is Global Macro Strategist at Saxo Bank. You can follow him on Twitter: @SaxoStrats or @KVP_Macro. Please join us live for next Monday's Macro Call at 0830 [Singapore/Hong Kong], 0930 [Tokyo], 1130 [Sydney].


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Sargon I, also known as Sharru-ken was a king of the Old Assyrian Kingdom between 1920 BCE and 1881 BCE. His name translated from the Akkadian means "the king is legitimate". Not much is known about his rule other than he was responsible for initiating construction projects that reinforced the capital city of Ashur. He is sometimes confused with Sargon the Great who established the Akkadian Empire and is also known as Sargon of Akkad rather than Sargon I.Šarru-kīn I, Sharru-ken I, or Sargon I, reigned as a Išši'ak Aššur of the Old Assyrian Empire from c. 1920 BC — c. 1881 BC. Šarru-kīn I is stated on the Assyrian King List as being the son and successor of Ikunum, and the father and predecessor of Puzur-Ashur II. The name, "Sargon" means "the king is legitimate" in the Akkadian language[1] and has also been used to refer to Sargon of Akkad. Sargon I may have been named after Sargon of Akkad,[2] perhaps reflecting the extent to which Sargon I identified with the prestigious Dynasty of Akkad. Sargon I is known for his work refortifying Assur.[3] Very little is otherwise known about Sargon I.[2]The following is a list of the 41 annually-elected limmu officials from the year of accession of Sargon I until the year of his death.[4] Dates are based on a date of 1833 BC for the solar eclipse recorded in the limmu of Puzur-Ishtar:[5][clarification needed] 1905 BC Irišum son of Iddin-Aššur 1904 BC Aššur-malik son of Agatum 1903 BC Aššur-malik son of Enania 1902 BC Ibisua son of Suen-nada 1901 BC Bazia son of Bal-Tutu 1900 BC Puzur-Ištar son of Sabasia 1899 BC Pišaḫ-Ili son of Adin 1898 BC Asqudum son of Lapiqum 1897 BC Ili-pilaḫ son of Damqum 1896 BC Qulali 1895 BC Susaya 1894 BC Amaya the Weaponer 1893 BC Ipḫurum son of Ili-ellat 1892 BC Kudanum son of Laqipum 1891 BC Ili-bani son of Ikunum 1890 BC Šu-Kubum son of Susaya 1889 BC Quqidi son of Amur-Aššur 1888 BC Abia son of Nur-Suen 1887 BC Šu-Ištar son of Šukutum 1886 BC Bazia son of Šepa-lim 1885 BC Šu-Ištar son of Ikunum, the starlike (kakkabanum) 1884 BC Abia son of Šu-Dagan 1883 BC Salia son of Šabakuranum 1882 BC Ibni-Adad son of Baqqunum 1881 BC Aḫmarši son of Malkum-išar 1880 BC Sukkalia son of Minanum 1879 BC Iddin-Aššur son of Kubidi 1878 BC Šudaya son of Ennanum 1877 BC Al-ṭab son of Pilaḫ-Aššur 1876 BC Aššur-dammiq son of Abarsisum 1875 BC Puzur-Niraḫ son of Puzur-Suen 1874 BC Amur-Aššur son of Karria 1873 BC Buzuzu son of Ibbi-Suen 1872 BC Šu-Ḫubur son of Elali 1871 BC Ilšu-rabi son of Bazia 1870 BC Alaḫum son of Inaḫ-ili 1869 BC Ṭab-Aššur son of Suḫarum 1868 BC Elali son of Ikunum 1867 BC Iddin-abum son of Narbitum 1866 BC Adad-bani son of Iddin-Aššur 1865 BC Aššur-iddin son of Šuli References[edit] Jump up ^ Chavalas, Mark William (29 Jun 2006). The ancient Near East: historical sources in translation. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-631-23580-4. ^ Jump up to: a b Bromiley, Geoffrey (31 Dec 1996). The international standard Bible encyclopedia (Revised ed.). William B Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-3784-4. Jump up ^ Leick, Gwendolyn (2001). Who's Who in the Ancient Near East. Routledge. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-415-13231-2. Jump up ^ Klaas R. Veenhof, The old Assyrian list of year eponyms from Karum Kanish and its chronological implications (Ankara, Turkish Historical Society, 2003) Jump up ^ C. Michel, Nouvelles données pour la chronologie du IIe millénaire, NABU 2002, Nr. 20, 17f. Preceded by Ikunum Išši'ak Aššur c. 1920 BC — c. 1881 BC Succeeded by Puzur-Ashur II

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Moleskine has teamed up with award-winning illustrator Carlo Stanga to introduce their first-ever coloring book for adults.
The company has hopped onto the adult coloring book train by bringing their legendary Moleskine craftsmanship to a new, playful genre with 'The Wandering City Coloring Book'. It boasts 50 elaborate, imaginative ink cityscapes that include scenes of busy squares, subway and train stations, parks, skyscrapers and many more illustrations.
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Ralph Angus McQuarrie was an American conceptual designer and illustrator. Impressed with his work, director George Lucas met with him to discuss his plans for a space-fantasy film. Several years later, in 1975, Lucas commissioned McQuarrie to illustrate several scenes from the script of the film, Star Wars. McQuarrie designed many of the film's characters, including Darth Vader,Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO and drew many concepts for the film's sets.It was McQuarrie who suggested that Vader wear a breathing apparatus. (via iamag.co)
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Freelance artist Taylor Mazer has a knack for creating incredibly detailed miniature drawings of urban landscapes. Using a combination of a fine-tipped Micron drawing pen and a mechanical pencil, the Michigan-based artist has managed to produce amazing monochromatic scenes of abandoned buildings and other urban structures, all accentuated with shadows and light play. (via Design Taxi)
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THE SABBATH UNDER CROSSFIRE NOTES FOR CHAPTER 4 1. Herbert W. Richardson, Toward an American Theology (New York, 1967), p. 139. 2. For my analysis of the Messianic typologies of the Sabbath in the Old Testament, see Divine Rest for Human Restlessness (Rome, 1980), pp.134-145; also "Sabbatical Typologies of Messianic Redemption," Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 17, no. 2 (1987). 3. See also Is 11:7-9; 65:25; Hos 2:20. 4. The Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 12a; cf. also 12b. 5. Mishnah, Shabbath 6:2. The quotations are taken from The Mishnah, ed. Herbert Danby (London, 1933). 6. For a convenient collection of texts, see Joseph Klausmer, The Messianic Idea in Israel (New York, 1955), pp.43-44, 62-63, 85-86, 99101, 158-160, 175-177, 283-284, 342-345, 377-378, 409-410, 505-512. The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, an apocryphon of the Old Testament composed between A.D. 1-50, alludes to the seven-day millennial scheme. It says: "And I blessed the seventh day which is the Sabbath ... God shows Enoch the age of this world, its existence of seven thousand years" (32:3). A similar scheme was developed by the rabbis. Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer asserts: "The Holy One, blessed be He, created seven aeons, and of them all He chose the seventh aeon only; the six aeons are for the going in and coming out .... The seventh aeon is entirely Sabbath and rest in the life everlasting" (trans. Gerald Friedlander [New York, 1971], p.141). See also Shabbath 30b; Kethubboth l l lb. 7. For my analysis of Barnabas and of the patristic interpretation of the cosmic Sabbath, see From Sabbath to Sunday (Rome, 1977), pp. 218-223, 278-285. 8. Tosephta Shabbat 16:22 reads: "Beth Shammai says: 'Contributions for the poor are not allotted on the Sabbath in the synagogue, even a dowry to marry an orphan young man to an orphan young woman. Quarrels between husband and wife are not adjudicated and one does not pray for the sick on the Sabbath.' Beth Hillel permits these activities." 9. Theodore Friedman, "The Sabbath: Anticipation of Redemption," Judaism 16 (1967): 445. 10. The Midrash on Psalms, trans. William G. Braude (New Haven, 1959), vol.2, p.112. In a similar vein, Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer says: "He created the seventh day, (but) not for work, because it is not said in connection therewith, `And it was evening and it was morning.' Why? For it is reserved for the generations (to come), as it is said, `And there shall be one day which is known unto the Lord; not day and not night' (Zech 14:7)" (trans. Gerald Friedlander [New York, 1971], p.137). Cf. also Shabbath 1 lb; Berakhoth 58b; Rosh Hashanah 31a. Church Fathers also took notice of the absence of any mention of "evening and morning" in conjunction with the seventh day of creation and interpreted it as representing the future eternal peace and rest of the saints. For example, Augustine in his Confessions offers this sublime prayer: "O Lord God, grant Thy peace unto us ... the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most beautiful order of things ... is to pass away, for in them there was morning and evening. But the seventh day is without any evening, nor hath any setting, because Thou hast sanctified it to an everlasting continuance; that that which Thou didst after Thy works, which were very good, resting on the seventh day ... that we also after our works (therefore very good, because Thou has given them unto us) may repose in Thee also in the Sabbath of eternal life" (The Confessions of St. Augustine 13, 50-51, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ed. Philip Schaff [Grand Rapids, 1979], first series v.l , p.207). See also Augustine's City of God, book 22, chapter 30. 11. Bereshith Rabbah 12:6. 12. According to the Midrash, the Sabbath acted as Adam's savior when God was about to destroy him on Friday evening on account of his sin: "At that moment the Sabbath arrived and became Adam's advocate, saying to the Holy One, blessed be He: `During the six days of Creation no one suffered punishment. And wilt Thou begin it with me? Is this my holiness? Is this my rest?'And thus Adam was saved by the Sabbath's plea from destruction in Gehenna. When Adam saw the power of the Sabbath, he was about to sing a hymn in her honor"( The Midrash on Psalms, trans. William G. Braude [New Haven, 1959], vol, 2, p.112). 13. The redemptive role of the Sabbath is reflected especially in the belief expressed by R. Eliezer of Modihim, that if Israel kept the Sabbath, the Lord would give her the land of Israel, the kingdom of the house of David, the future world, the new world (Mekilta, Vayassah 5:6673). See also Shabbath 118b, 119b, 3a; Mishnah Aboth 5:8; Jubilees 2:28. 14. See, for example, Bereshith Rabbah 3:6; 11:2. For other sources, see Louis Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews (Philadelphia, 1946), vol.5, p.8, n. 19. 15. Dale Ratzlaff, Sabbath in Crisis (Applegate, California, 1990), p.24. 16. See The Midrash on Psalms (n. 12), vol.2, p.112; Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer (n. 10), p.144. 17. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (New York, 1951), p.23. 18. On the development of the rest-theme in the Old Testament, see Gerhard von Rad, "There Remains Still a Rest for the People of God," in The Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays (New York, 1966), pp.94-102. 19. Ernst Jenni, Die Theologische Begrundung des Sabbatgebotes im Alten Testament (Zurich, 1956), p.282. 20. The Midrash on Psalms (n. 12), vol.2, p.113. 21. The author of Hebrews presents what may be called three different levels of meaning of the Sabbath rest: creation-rest (4:3), national-rest (4:6, 8), redemption-rest (4:3,7,9,10). For my analysis of the passage, see Samuele Bacchiocchi, Divine Rest for Human Restlessness (Rome, 1980), pp.135-136, 164-170; idem, From Sabbath to Sunday (Rome, 1977), pp.63-69. 22. Sanhedrin 97a. 23. Mishnah Tamid 7:4. 24. Ibid. 25. See Mishnah Pesahim 10:5. The underlying connection among the Sabbath, Passover, and the Day of Atonement appears to be not only theological (i.e., redemption motif) and terminological (i.e., Shabbath designation) but presumably also numerical. Saul J. Berman notes that "The fact that the Jewish calendar can be begun with either the month of Tishrei or with the month of Nissan will allow us to recognize a further relationship of the term, 'Shabbat,' to the number seven. Counting from the month of Tishrei, the seventh month, Nissan, contains a Shabbat, namely Pesah. Counting the months of the year from Nissan yields Tishrei as the seventh month, and that month too, contains a Shabbath, Yom Kippur ... Pesah, in the seventh month from Tishrei, and Yom Kippur, in the seventh month from Nissan, together constitute the Sabbath of months" ("The Extended Notion of the Sabbath," Judaism 22 (1973): 343). The weekly Sabbath appears then to share in common the theme of redemption with the Sabbath of months and the Sabbath of years (sabbatical and jubilee years). 26. For a perceptive discussion of the redemptive features of the Sabbath years, see George Wesley Buchanan, Revelation and Redemption (Dillsboro, North Carolina, 1978), pp.9-10; idem, The Consequences of the Covenant (Leiden, 1970), p.18. 27. Robert B. Sloan, The Favorable Year of the Lord: A Study of Jubilary Theology in the Gospel of Luke (Austin, Texas, 1977). 28. Julian Morgenstern maintains that "in all likelihood the 'great trumpet' (Is 27:13), a blast from which would inaugurate a new and happier era for conquered and dispersed Israel, was a yobel. All this suggests cogently that the ram's-horn trumpet was of unusual character, used only upon extraordinary occasions and for some particular purpose (cf. Ex 19:13) ... This year acquired its name just because this unique, fiftieth year was ushered in by this blast upon the yobel, whereas the commencement of ordinary years was signalized only by a blast upon a shophar (2 Sam 15:10; cf. Lev 23:24)" (The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible [Nashville, 1962], s. v. "Jubilee, Year of," vol.2, p. 1001). 29. Behodesh Hashebihi 172a, cited in George W. Buchanan, Revelation and Redemption (Dillsboro, North Carolina, 1978), p. 13. 30. The term and concept of "sabbatical eschatology" is used and explained by Buchanan, in Revelation and Redemption (note 26), pp.3-6; also idem, The Consequences of the Covenant (note 30), pp.9-17. 31. The terms "sabbatical messianism" and "chronomessianism" are used by Ben Zion Wacholder in his article, "Chronomessianism. The Timing of Messianic Movements and the Calendar of Sabbatical Cycles," Hebrews Union College Annual 46 (1975), p.201. 32. For an edition and analysis of I IQ Melchizedek, see Joseph A. Fitzmyer, "Further Light on Melchizedek from Qumran Cave II," Journal of Biblical Literature 86 (1967), p.25-41; M. de Jonge and A. S. van der Woude, "11 Q Melchizedek and the New Testament," New Testament Studies 12 (1865-1966), p.301-326. 33. Sanhedrin 97b. 34. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (New York, 1951), p.68. 35. John Calvin, Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis, trans. John King (Grand Rapids, 1948), p.106. 36. Paul K. Jewett, The Lord's Day: A Theological Guide to the Christian Day of Worship (Grand Rapids, 1972), p.86. 37. M. Max B. Turner, "The Sabbath, Sunday, and the Law in Luke/Acts," in the symposium From Sabbath to the Lord's Day (Grand Rapids, 1982), p.102. 38. Ibid. 39. On the influence of the synagogue upon the Christian divine service, see C. W. Dugmore, The Influence of the Synagogue upon the Divine Office, 1964; A. Allan McArthur, The Evolution of the Christian Year, 1953; Dom Benedict Steuart, The Development of Christian Worship, 1953. 40. Luke 416,31; 6:1,2,5,6,7,9; 13:10,14,15,16; 14:1,3,5; 23:54, 56; Acts 1:12; 13:14,27,42,44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4. 41. See, for example, 1. Howard Marshall, The Gospel of Luke (New York,1978), p.883; F. Godet, A Commentary on the Gospel of Saint Luke, (London, 1870), 11, p. 343; A. R. Leaney, A Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Luke (Grand Rapids, 1966), p.288. The same view is implied by the translators of the New International Version: "Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment" (Luke 23:56). 42. M. Max B. Turner (note 37), p.102. 43. The two crucial terms of the passage are "to proclaim" and "release." Both of these terms, which recur twice, are technical terms for the Sabbath years. For an informative treatment of this question, see Robert B. Sloan (note 27), pp.32-42. P. Miller rightly notes: "The tie that binds Isaiah 61:1-2 and 58:6 together in Luke 4 is the small word aphesis, the word translated 'release' for the captives and `liberty' for the oppressed .... it is the catchword binding the two quotations together. Out of the four sentences in Isaiah 58:6 that all say essentially the same thing, the one chosen here in the gospel quotation is the one that in the Greek translation uses aphesis" ("Luke 4:16-21," Interpretation 29 [October, 1975], p.419). 44. H. Conzelmann, The Theology of St. Luke (New York, 1960), p. 180. Similarly, G. B. Caird points out that Luke "places the incident at the beginning of his story of the Galilean ministry because it announces the pattern which the ministry is to follow" (Saint Luke [Grand Rapids, 1963], p. 86). Robert C. Tannehill also writes: "These words and acts [Luke 4:1630] have typical programmatic significance for the whole of Jesus' ministry as Lukes understands it . . . Luke chose to make this quotation [Luke 4:18-19] the title under which the whole ministry of Jesus is placed. He did so because it expresses clearly certain important aspects of his own understanding of Jesus and his ministry" ("The Mission of Jesus according to Luke 4:16-30," in Jesus in Nazareth [Grand Rapids, 1972], pp.51,72). 45. Paul K. Jewett (note 36), p. 27. A. Strobel argues that behind Christ's quotation lay an actual historical jubilee year which is dated in A.D. 26-27 (Kerygma und Apokalyptik, [1967], p. 105-111). If this were the case, then Christ's speech would have added significance since it would have been delivered in the context of an actual jubilee year. 46. Paul K. Jewett (note 36), p.42. 47. Ibid., p.82. 48. This view is expressed, for example, by M. M. B. Turner who writes: "There is no question here of the Sabbath being particularly appropriate for such healing; any more than it is particularly appropriate on that day to loose oxen and donkey from their crib and to water them. The argument, in other words, is not that the Sabbath is a special day, in this respect, but precisely that it is not. The inbreaking kingdom, the loosing of Satan's captives, is no respecter of days" (note 37, p.107). 49. Nathan A. Barack correctly affirms: "The Sabbath inspires its beneficiaries to feel that the universe is the work of a purposeful Creator, that human life has meaning and sanctity, that all life must be preserved, and that even animals must be provided with their necessary rest" (A History of the Sabbath [1965], p. xii). 50. Robert Banks comments in this regard: "Luke desires to highlight those works of Jesus which bring salvation and healing to men, which as v. 16 makes clear, especially occur on that day" (Jesus and the Law in the Synoptic Tradition [1985], p.131). Similarly, I. Howard Marshall writes: "Hence it was necessary for her to be released immediately, even though it was Sabbath, perhaps indeed all the more fitting on the Sabbath" (The Gospel of Luke [1978], p.559). 51. Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer (note 10), p.141. 52. For my extensive analysis of the literary context and of the sabbatical nature of Christ's rest, see "Matthew 11:28-30: Jesus' Rest and the Sabbath," Andrews University Seminary Studies 24 (Summer 1984), p.1-23. 53. See, for example, J. Danielou, Bible and Liturgy (South Bend, Indiana, 1956), p.226; David Hill, The Gospel of Matthew (London, 1972), pp.209-210; D. A. Carson, "Jesus and the Sabbath in the Four Gospels," in From Sabbath to Lord's Day. A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Investigation (Grand Rapids, 1982), p.66. 54. Donald A. Carson, "Jesus and the Sabbath in the four Gospels," in the symposium From Sabbath to the Lord's Day (Grand Rapids, 1982), p.102. 55. The book of Jubilees explains that "burning frankincense and bringing oblation and sacrifices before the Lord ... shall be done on Sabbath-days in the sanctuary of the Lord your God; that they may atone for Israel with sacrifice" (50:10-11). 56. This view is held by various scholars. Gerhard Barth, for example, comments that by the phrase "something greater than the temple is here ... undoubtedly Jesus is meant, for in him the Messianic fulfillment and consummation has come and he is therefore more than the Temple" (Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew [Philadelphia, 1963], p.82). 57. Ellen G. White perceptively notes: "The priests were performing those rites that pointed to the redeeming power of Christ, and their labor was in harmony with the object of the Sabbath. But now Christ Himself had come. The disciples, in doing the work of Christ, were engaged in God's service, and that which was necessary for the accomplishment of this work it was right to do on the Sabbath" (The Desire of Ages [Mountain View, California, 1940], p.285). 58. Robert Banks, Jesus and the Law in the Synoptic Tradition (Grand Rapids, 1967), p.117. Cf. Morna D. Hooker, The Son of Man in Mark (New York, 1967), p.98; P. K. Jewett (note 36), p.37. 59. D. A. Carson (note 54), p.67. 60. Ibid., p.79. Cf. W. Rordorf, Sunday: The History of the Day of Rest and Worship in the Earliest Centuries of the Christian Church (Philadelphia, 1968), pp.70, 296. 61. David Hill, The Gospel of Matthew (1972), p.211. 62. This view is emphatically stated by Etan Levine: "The Pharisees are not being told that the Sabbath injunctions should be abrogated; rather, within their own realm of discourse they are being reminded that plucking grain on the Sabbath is legitimate for sacred purposes. Thus, Jesus does not abrogate the Torah, but exercises his prerogative to interpret it, in this case defining the `sacred' in term other than the Temple ritual, as the text explicitly states" ("The Sabbath Controversy According to Matthew," New Testament Studies 22 [1976]: 482). Similarly, William L. Lane writes: "The divine intention was in no way infringed by the plucking of heads of grain on the part of Jesus' disciples" (The Gospel According to Mark [New York, 1974], p.120). 63. L. Goppelt, Christentum and Judentum im ers ten and zweiten Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1954), p.46, as cited in W. Rordorf (note 60), p. 71. Rordorf himself defends this view and goes so far as to acuse Matthew of "beginning the moralistic misunderstanding of Jesus' attitude toward the Sabbath" (note 60, p.68). This misunderstanding allegedly consists in assuming "that the obligation to love one's neighbour dispiaces in certain circumstances the command to keep a day of rest" (ibid.). One wonders whether Matthew really misunderstood or truly understood Christ's meaning and message of the Sabbath, when he wrote, "It is lawful to do good on the sabbath" (Matt 12:12). It is true that in post exilic Judaism an elaborate fence had been erected around the Sabbath to assure its faithful observance. The multitude of meticulous and casuistic regulations, produced to guard the Sabbath, turned the observance of the day into a legalistic ritual rather than into a loving service. It was Christ's intent to restore the Sabbath to the original divine design. 64. Niels-Erik Andreasen, "Festival and Freedom," Interpretation 28 (1974), p.289. 65. Hans Walter Wolff, "The Day of Rest in the Old Testament," Concordia Theological Monthly 43 (1972), p.504. 66. For my analysis of John 5:17, see my article "John 5:17: Negation or Clarification of the Sabbath?" Andrews University Seminary Studies 19 (Spring 1981), p.3-19. 67. See, for example, George Allen Turner, Julius R. Mantey, O. Cullman, E. C. Hoskyns, F. Godet on John 5:17. 68. A. T. Lincoln, "Sabbath, Rest, and Eschatology in the New Testament," in From Sabbath to Lord's Day, ed. Donald A. Carson (Grand Rapids, 1982), p.204. 69. Yoma 85b. 70. On the redemptive meaning of circumcision, see Rudolf Meyer, "peritemno," Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. G. Kittel (Grand Rapids, 1973), vol. 6, pp.75-76. 71. For a presentation of the three reasons, see A. T. Lincoln (note 68), pp.212-214. 72. Among the commentators who view the fulfillment of the Sabbath rest as an exclusive fut ure experience are E. Kasemann, O. Michel, H. Windisch, W. Manson; F.F. Bruce; Delitzsch, and R. C. H. Lenski. 73. Bruce Metzger rightly remarks: "Many of them felt themselves drawn to Jewish liturgy and were on the point of renouncing Christianity and returning to their ancestral Jewish faith" (The New Testament: Its Background, Growth and Content [Nashville, 1965), p.249). 74. The term sabbatismos occurs in the following works: Plutarch, De Superstitione 3 (Moralia 1660); Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 23, 3; Epiphanius, Adversus Haereses 30, 2, 2; Apostolic Constitutions 2,36. 75. Andrew T. Lincoln, a contributor to the scholarly symposium From Sabbath to the Lord's Day acknowledges that in both secular and Christian literature "the term [sabbatismos] denotes the observance or celebration of the Sabbath. This usage corresponds to the Septuagint usage of the cognate verb sabbatizo (cf. Ex 16:23; Lev 23:32; 26:34f; 2 Chron 36:21) which also has reference to Sabbath observance. Thus, the writer to the Hebrews is saying that since the time of Joshua an observance of Sabbath rest has been outstanding" (note 68), p.213. 76. For examples and discussion of the spiritual interpretation of the Sabbath commandment, see W. Rordorf (note 60), pp. 100-108. Franz X. Pettirsch also notes: "The early fathers of the Church applied the law of Sabbath rest only allegorically to absention from sin; a literal application to work was foreign to their thinking" ("A Theology of Sunday Rest," Theology Digest 6 [1958], p.116). The author explains how during the Middle Ages the formula "servile work" was interpreted in a literal sense as meaning "field work, any heavy work" (p.117). The spiritual interpretation of the Sabbath rest as "self-renenciation" is advocated also by John Calvin, in Commentaries on the Four Last Rooks of Moses, trans. C. W. Bingham (Grand Rapids, 1950), p. 436. 77. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Grand Rapids, 1972), vol.2, p.337. Karl Barth keenly observes that, by resting on the Sabbath after the similitude of God (Heb 4:10), the believer "participates consciously in the salvation provided by him [God]" (Church Dogmatics [Edinburgh, 1961], vol.3, part 2, p.50). 78. Karl Barth (note 77), p.51. 79. Epistle to Diognetus 4, 3, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Grand Rapids, 1973 reprint), vol.l, p.26. 80. Augustine, City of God, XXII, 30, trans. Gerald Walsh, Demetrius B. Zema, Grace Monahan (New York,1958), p.544. .......................
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hackberry, sugarberry
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Plant Specifics
Form: tree
Life Span: long-lived perennial
Size: Height: 60 to 80 ft Width: 30 to 50 ft
Flower Color: yellow,NA
Fruit Color: brown
Phenology: deciduous
Noted for: Interesting foliage, interesting bark
Recommended Uses: Rarely used but suited to informal areas. Tolerant of root disturbance, so appropriate to parking lots and street tree uses.
Considerations: Somewhat weak. Shallow root system limits plants growing under it.
Propagation: Seed.
Availability: Native nurseries, Seed
Moisture Tolerance:
Salt Tolerance: Not salt tolerant
Soil or other substrate: Sand, clay, loam
Soil pH Range: Calcareous (high pH)
Fruits are eaten by a number of birds and small animals. Attracts various pollinators. Provides valuable wildlife cover. Larval host for hackberry emperor (Asterocampa celtis), and mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa) butterflies. Sole larval host plant for American snout (Libytheana carineta) in South Florida; also larval host for tawny emperor (Asterocampa clyton), question mark (Polygonia interrogationis) butterflies.
Native Habitats: River floodplains, ruderal
Distribution and Planting Zones
Natural Range in Florida
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In the virtual age, the guys can see them on-line – numerous new consumers are inundated with generic messages from beautiful gals in damaged English – but they have to fork out to participate in. They just have a mentality of Asian girls – these girls are very shy, well mannered, tender, and quite feminine.
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The American Voice: Eight Things
By Adam Greenfield, Associate Artistic Director
In the first moment of Adam Bock's early play Swimming in the Shallows (1999), Barb confronts an idea that ultimately uproots her life:
"Did you know there's Buddhist monks who only own eight things," she asks. "I bet I have eight hundred probably eight thousand things just in my kitchen. …I read this and I got a very upset very unnerved feeling."
And over the course of this brisk, contemplative urban fairy tale — which for many of us was a thrilling, revelatory intro to an important new writer — Barb becomes obsessively aware of how she's a prisoner of what she's accumulated over the course of her life, the weight of what she has inadvertently collected. So she gradually sheds her life of every item she realizes is inessential (a list that includes, ultimately, her husband). "I have so much stuff I feel heavy," she says. "I have more and more stuff every day and every day more and more stuff has me. And all I want to do is stop and be quiet and see whether I want it." At the end of the play, she reduces her load to 147 items. But from somewhere inside she still feels tied down, so she takes off her shoes. 145.
It wasn't until I sat down to write about A Life, after almost two decades of reading Adam Bock's plays, that my thoughts turned back to this first encounter with his work. I hadn't realized how deeply Barb's gently persistent spiritual journey has stuck with me, nor how these first moments with his writing have actually been organizing the way I've understood his anthology to date. Barb's grasping pursuit of lightness and liberation is an inquiry that weaves its way, albeit in vastly different forms, throughout Adam's collection of plays. His work runs the gamut, of course – he's anything but predictable – but each of his characters seems stuck just on the other side of the life they wish they had, a thin but impermeable membrane keeping them from grace, and they're pressed against it trying to will some sort of passage or epiphany into being, but coming up shy.
Each of his characters seems stuck just on the other side of the life they wish they had, a thin but impermeable membrane keeping them from grace.
In Five Flights (2002), a man constructs an elaborate aviary to house the soul of his late wife; and years later, after his own death, his kids start a new church there, "the Church of the Fifth Day" (when god reportedly created birds). Olivia, upon whose batty, ecstatic visions this makeshift church is founded, preaches desperately to her tiny congregation with an intensity that betrays her: "In each of our hearts lives a bird called the soul. The nun imprisons the bird in a chaste marriage. The rabbi tries to sing and argue it to sleep. The Protestant builds it a cage of stone and gold. The Buddhist winks and hopes — boink — the bird won't be there anymore. We want to let the bird fly free. …I'm telling you that I was in despair and then suddenly I had a sense of relief a sense that God would relieve me of this despair if I would only let him." Olivia is all anxiety and mad hope, a walking struggle to keep hold of her faith, but gripping so hard that the ultimate dissolution of her church seems inevitable from the start. So in the end, the aviary is left to crumble slowly to the ground, the land pulling it back into itself.
Like Nate in A Life, feverishly clutching his star charts and re-examining the past, Olivia and Barb strike me as sort of quintessentially Bock-ian characters, caught in a state of hopeful paralysis, unable to shed the weight of their own psyches, and they're echoed all through Adam's works: from the would-be activists in The Shaker Chair (2005) to the sloppy, lost bachelorettes of The Drunken City (2007), and the beautiful, doomed community theater troupe in The Flowers (2009). Perhaps even more poignantly, in The Thugs (2006), and The Receptionist (2007), his terrifying, dystopian "Office Plays," we see hope in its absence, the cosmology of a world without the possibility of faith, stripped of a better version of life to believe in – a sort of man-made hell (written not coincidentally during the Bush/Cheney era). In A Small Fire (2010), our protagonist is stripped of her physical senses, one by one, until left with only the sense of touch; she has to shed what she holds onto, what she thinks makes her who she is, to find her essential self.
More than just the journey of the characters who populate Adam Bock's plays, though, this pursuit of grace, and the friction created when it meets the necessities of life, is also a quality of the writing of these plays in itself. No other playwright seems so intent on finding lightness and space as a quality within the writing — like Barb shedding herself of the coffee mugs and tchotchkes that are cluttering up her life, to reduce each line to reveal the essence of what's playing out onstage yet somehow, without ever diluting the complexity and eccentricity of each moment. Consider this staggeringly great, incisive line from the end of Five Flights, in which we see a character find transcendent eloquence and lose his words in the same breath: "It's like the rejection bounces us out of our bodies. It bounces us out of our bodies. Right... What I can hear, what I hear from you, you don't want to be here. Something, or more than, and you. Right? You don't. I hear that. But I also. I also. I just wanted to say to you, it's not ok to just give up. Just." To me, this isn't just a well-observed, contemporary, "heard it on the street" writing style, as I've often heard Adam's writing described. It's character writing turned into haiku, essentialized to its idiosyncratic core; or, it's Japanese landscape painting, finding profound depth in blank spaces and surprising epiphanies through careful understatement.
But what I love about that line of dialogue, too – both as character writing and as writing in itself — is the tension there, the conflict between wanting to say as little as possible and needing to say more, between restraint and aspiration. It's as if these characters' journeys, as they struggle against themselves to slough off extraneous circumstance and meaning, are an echo of what the act of writing itself is like for Adam. Because, I mean, he writes plays, and he's an excellent dramatist, but what makes for a liberated, weightless soul isn't necessarily what makes for excellent drama. Buddha tells us that "desire is the root cause of all suffering," but Stanislavsky tells us the rule of good acting is a juicy, high-stakes objective; and since Aristotle put ink to parchment way back in the day, we've seen the key elements of drama as motive and conflict. If anything, we're always looking for how we might tease out as much tension onstage as possible, mining the story's circumstances to see how we can make them more overwhelming, how we can sharpen the sense of dread and crisis. While religious practice, at least in the ethos of an Adam Bock play, provides calm and perspective, these are sort of antithetical to what we traditionally understand of great drama, and that's something Adam clearly knows and puts to the test.
This is a tension, I think, at work in the dramaturgy of his plays, both in the story (content) and in its telling (form). The straining of his characters to break free from the trappings of their lives – sometimes stemming from outward circumstances, but more often than not from inside themselves – is mirrored by the actual writing of the plays, as the pursuit of grace butts up against theater's demand for rising action and struggle, keeping all the wide-eyed, searching Barbs and Olivias at arm's length from revelation. Anyway, this is something I think about sometimes when I think about A Life: about the way Adam Bock's plays pull us continually toward lightness, like houseplants craning our necks toward the sun but stuck in some damn pot, and how this new play is a startling discovery, in the story of his writing. In which, unthinkably, both a character and a play dare to shed what most essentially makes them who and what they are, and in doing so pass into a new understanding.