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The BEMA Podcast

454: Qohelet Goes Off

The BEMA Podcast

BEMA Discipleship

Hermeneutics, Religion & Spirituality, Scripture, Jewish Context, Biblical, Judaism, Bible, Christianity

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Reed Dent consider the appointed time for everything.

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0:00.0

This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

0:08.4

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

0:09.7

Today, Josh Bosse is bringing in Redent to consider the appointed time for everything.

0:15.9

We're going to cover it all today from what I understand, right?

0:19.2

All of them.

0:19.7

Every appointed time.

0:21.7

Now is the appointed time for podcasting, it seems. Before we get into this, of course, we have our obligatory

0:29.0

warning. Remember, this book is very dangerous to us. This book is so dangerous. They almost didn't put it in the

0:38.5

Bible, folks. Is this the buzz, this is a Buzzfeed tagline for this episode? Yes. For the,

0:45.4

for this book of the Bible. Yes. They actually, Elle told me a piece of trivia, which I always

0:49.2

love bringing up. Apparently, there is a debate in the Mishnah about whether touching a scroll of Kohelet makes you unclean or something along those lines.

0:58.6

So it was very controversial, both on the Jewish side and Christian side.

1:05.4

There's a lot of people are unsettled.

1:07.8

And for good reason, this book is very challenging.

1:10.0

But there are additional layers of contextual uh reality that make it challenging for us listening to it here

1:17.5

and the first is that as a book of philosophy uh it can trick us into being too abstract this is

1:25.8

non-abstract philosophy this is rooted in the material world.

1:31.2

The concrete metaphors that are used are meant to be taken concretely. And so we can't get too

1:37.3

abstract with it. And number two is that this book is very individualistic. It uses a radical

1:43.4

individualist lens because Kuhela is not coming from a culture that is

1:48.8

individualistic like ours.

1:50.6

But that does not mean that she is individualistic the way that we are.

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