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The BEMA Podcast

456: Qohelet Weeds the Garden

The BEMA Podcast

BEMA Discipleship

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

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Qohelet herself look deeply at the roots of evil.

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0:00.0

This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon.

0:08.3

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

0:09.8

Today I am joined by Josh Bosse and Kohelet herself to look deeply at the roots of evil.

0:15.7

Yes, today we are looking at the other side of the coin.

0:19.1

Last chapter was all about oppression and

0:22.3

solidarity and now we are looking at where that need for solidarity and liberation against

0:31.4

oppression comes from. How do we get there? And to go back to Kohelots, the new question that arose

0:37.5

all the way back in chapter 3, how do

0:39.4

we actually

0:41.4

arrive at any kind of

0:43.0

spiritual progress when we see

0:45.2

so much evil around us?

0:47.6

How do we use that

0:49.3

to anchor our identity as something

0:51.2

more than animals?

0:53.3

But before we jump in, as always,

0:56.4

got to open with this warning.

0:57.8

Gotta remind us.

0:58.8

We are doing non-abstract philosophy.

1:02.4

Quite a thing to wrap our head around.

1:04.7

We are looking at material reality.

1:08.2

We are looking at human experience.

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