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The BEMA Podcast

465: Qohelet’s Reflection

The BEMA Podcast

BEMA Discipleship

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

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Josh Bossé close out this series, and—instead of letting Qohelet do the talking—consider the reflection of Qohelet in our hearts and in our lives.

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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.

0:09.9

Today we are with Josh Bosse to close out this series,

0:12.9

and instead of letting Kohelet do the talking,

0:15.2

we are considering the reflection of Kohelet in our hearts and in our lives.

0:19.4

Yes, a little bit outside the normal method that we've used to talk about Kohelet.

0:25.3

We're doing kind of a reflection episode looking back over this whole journey that has been

0:32.2

honestly, in many ways, surprising and revelatory.

0:37.3

And yeah, I feel like so much changed the more we went through

0:41.2

it and well placed because there's a lot of I mean we covered a lot of ground in the Kohelet

0:45.4

discussion in the best kind of way like just dense philosophical considerations and so it's good

0:52.8

to do like a close out like, let's boil this down to some

0:55.5

good application points and some takeaways and see where that goes with that. Yeah, you're

1:00.7

right. We did cover so much ground because, yeah, at one point we'd be talking about, you know,

1:05.1

justice and injustice and fighting against it and then death and, you know, all these big existential questions,

1:13.0

how to live in exile, just so many things got touched on that are all really good.

1:18.2

But yeah, way more dense, I think, than I ever realized before, even in some of my past studies.

1:23.9

Like, there is just so, so much in here.

1:26.6

And probably a lot of stuff we didn't even

1:29.6

catch, you know, looking back. Yeah, absolutely true for me. I, you know, knew a handful of passages

1:36.5

very well, and most of it didn't know particularly well at all. So to see how it all fits together

1:42.4

and how it's actually pretty unique among the biblical

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