Mobile Ed: OT350 Book Study: Ecclesiastes (4 hour course)
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, 2023
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Overview
Study the book of Ecclesiastes with award-winning Old Testament scholar Dr. Tremper Longman as he discusses the books focus on idols and the meaning of life. Do we live for work, wealth and money, pleasure, achievement and status, relationships? Can we grow in wisdom to help us navigate this life better? Who Is Qohelet? Explore these questions and let it drive you closer to Christ as the one who redeems you from the frustration of life.
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and Course
- The Question of Meaning of Life
- The Meaning of Hevel
- The Two Voices in Ecclesiastes
- The Two Voices in Ecclesiastes (part 2) / What about 1:1-11?
- Death renders life meaningless (12:1-7)
- Let’s see how this works out in relationship to wisdom.
- Injustice renders life meaningless (part 1: 7:15-18)
- Injustice renders life meaningless (part 2: 8:10-14)
- The inability to discern the proper time renders life meaningless.(part 1)
- The inability to discern the proper time renders life meaningless.(part 2)
- Notice how all three of these come together in Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 (interpret as read).
- Qohelet's search for meaning (part 1)
- Qohelet's search for meaning (part 2)
- Qohelet's search for meaning (part 3)
- Carpe Diem.
- Qohelet's thoughts about God
- The message of the frame narrator. (12:8-14) Part 1
- The message of the frame narrator. (12:8-14) Part 2
- The message of the frame narrator. (12:8-14) Part 3
- Summarize: the book of Ecclesiastes is an idol buster. If you try to put anything in the place of God—wisdom, work, wealth, pleasure or anything—it will let you down.
- Reason why the book associates Qohelet with Solomon.
- Ecclesiastes in Relationship to Proverbs
- Ecclesiastes from a NT perspective. (part 1)
- Ecclesiastes from a NT perspective. (part 2)
- Ecclesiastes from a NT perspective. (part 3)
- Living and Teaching the Book of Ecclesiastes
- Who wrote Ecclesiastes?
Conclusion
- Conclusion to the course
- Title: Book Study: Ecclesiastes
- Instructor: Tremper Longman III
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2023
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 4
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Tremper Longman III serves as Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He has written over 35 books, including commentaries on Genesis, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, Nahum, and Revelation. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. In addition, as a Hebrew scholar, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on other popular Bible translations, including The Message, the New Century Version, the Christian Standard Bible, and the Common Bible. He has also edited and contributed to a number of study Bibles and Bible dictionaries, most recently The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
He earned his BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and both his MPhil and PhD from Yale University. Dr. Longman and his wife, Alice, have three sons and eight grandchildren.