Sep 11 21:22:08 <rindolf>	Is it OK if I tell about an idea for an illustrated screenplay I have here?
Sep 11 21:22:27 <Elench>	Yes
Sep 11 21:22:32 <rindolf>	Kinda like brainstorming.
Sep 11 21:22:43 <rindolf>	Elench: OK, thanks.
Sep 11 21:23:02 <Elench>	Brainstorming is allowed, brainwashing prohibited :þ
Sep 11 21:23:12 <rindolf>	So it is titled "So, who the hell is Qoheleth?"
Sep 11 21:24:36 <rindolf>	And it is about the guy who wrote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes shortly after he finished writing it and publicised it?
Sep 11 21:27:31 <rindolf>	Now i imagined him being called Yoseph (or Iosephus in Greek) and he was a Jew who lived in Damascus, around ~300 B.C. . He was young (18 y.o - maybe even less); unmarried and a virgin.
Sep 11 21:28:25 <rindolf>	One day he enters a bet in which he tries to prove that he can write a worthy work of philosphy.
Sep 11 21:29:08 <rindolf>	And he eventually produces the scroll - after about a month or two of work.
Sep 11 21:30:02 <rindolf>	He wrote it originally in Hebrew, but recited it in Greek and Aramaic.
Sep 11 21:30:52 <rindolf>	Well, maybe also hebrew and other langs.
Sep 11 21:31:14 <Ana_Ng>	being a virgin, he had plenty of time to learn those languages.
Sep 11 21:32:07 <rindolf>	Elench: anyway, he gets a standing ovation and people donate to him like crazy (back then philosophers were a kind of entertainers).
Sep 11 21:32:17 <rindolf>	Ana_Ng: heh, yes.
Sep 11 21:32:44 <rindolf>	Ana_Ng: well, he was under constant pressure to get married already.
Sep 11 21:32:49 <Elench>	It's a long time since I read that
Sep 11 21:33:10 <Ana_Ng>	oh please
Sep 11 21:33:16 <rindolf>	So he gives a few reruns.
Sep 11 21:33:27 <Ana_Ng>	he didn't even know pressure
Sep 11 21:33:49 <rindolf>	And pretty soon the whole of Damascus is obsessed with him and his scroll.
Sep 11 21:34:26 <rindolf>	And all the single girls want him for themselves.
Sep 11 21:34:59 <rindolf>	which drives him mad because pre-marital sex was considered non-kosher.
Sep 11 21:35:14 <rindolf>	and he believes in intimacy.
Sep 11 21:36:25 <rindolf>	Elench: Ana_Ng : at the start of the screenplay he gets asked "So who the hell is Qoheleth?" in Aramaic.
Sep 11 21:36:47 <rindolf>	Where "is" resembles "jehovah" a lot there.
Sep 11 21:37:16 <rindolf>	because yihiyeh is present/future.
Sep 11 21:37:29 <Elench>	Sure
Sep 11 21:37:42 <Elench>	Does Jehovah fit there gramatically though?
Sep 11 21:37:46 <rindolf>	So he says it could be king solomon or someone else.
Sep 11 21:37:50 <Elench>	I can't figure out what it would mean
Sep 11 21:38:05 <Ana_Ng>	i'm glad this is of interest to somebody
Sep 11 21:38:20 <petus>	Hi :)
Sep 11 21:38:26 <rindolf>	Elench: some people thought that jehovah meant "He who is/will be"
Sep 11 21:43:10 <rindolf>	Elench: anyway, so the guy who asked him that who's also Jewish tells him that while his scroll was blasphemous, it brought a lot of "respect" to Jews.
Sep 11 21:45:34 <rindolf>	Elench: and then he (Josephus, who is also the narrator) tells how every girl wants him and they see lots of girls staring and lusting him.