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Market: first ten minutes of CNBC/Cramer --
- Palantir to surge? Link here. Cramer warns those shorting the stock.
- BE -- Bloom Energy -- up $16.42 in pre-market. Trading at $124. At open: up $12; trading at $120.
- military / defense stocks surging
North Dakota pipeline: Intensity partners with Coal Creek; pipeline to move forward.
earlier post on the blog: link here.
Minnesota activity: news incredibly muted, considering all that is going on.
Grandparent 529 legal loophole: in the news overnight. New / not new. Links everywhere. The changes applied to the FAFSA forms submitted for the 2024 - 2025 academic year and beyond. There's a bigger story here and one I've commented on many, many times on the blog. There's one demographic regarding the US Congress that suits investors. The demographic? They're "all" grandparents.
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Religion
Simcha Fisher: how did I miss this blogger all these years? Recent post. Will add on my "Links" page.
Movie review: Released over 20 years ago. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, released February 25, 2004. Link here.
Chatbot prompt: what was the Mel Gibson and the Aramaic issue all about?
Aramaic: wiki.
From my reading lists, summer reading program (2025) and winter reading program (2025 - 2026):
- The Jewish Annotated New Testament, NRSV, Amy-Jill Levine And Marc Zvi Brettler -- c. 2011, with new preface, 2016.
- Life in Ancient Egypt, Adolf Erman, c. 1971; Translated by H. M. Tirard with an introduction by Jon Manchip White; notes here.
- Assyria: The and Fall of the World's First Empire, Eckart Frahm, c. 2023.
- Stories From Ancient Canaan, Second Edition, Michael D. Coogan, c. March 15, 2012. Notes here.
- The Invention Of Hebrew, Seth L. Sanders, c. 2009. Notes here.
- Who Really Wrote The Bible? The Story Of The Scribes, William M. Schniedewind, c. 2024, Princeton University Press. Notes here.
- Thutmose III and Hatshepsut Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives, Aidan Dodson, February 18, 2025.
Aramaic: unlike in Hebrew, designations for Aramaic language in some other ancient languages were mostly exonymic.
In ancient Greek, Aramaic language was most commonly known as the "Syrian language", in relation to the native (non-Greek) inhabitants of the historical region of Syria. Since the name of Syria emerged as a variant of Assyria, the biblical Ashur, and Akkadian Ashuru, a complex set of semantic phenomena was created, becoming a subject of interest both among ancient writers and modern scholars.
