Phillip J. Long

Jesus the Bridegroom (eBook, ePUB)

The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Did Jesus claim to be the "bridegroom"? If so, what did he mean by this claim? When Jesus says that the wedding guests should not fast "while the bridegroom is with them" (Mark 2:19), he is claiming to be a bridegroom by intentionally alluding to a rich tradition from the Hebrew Bible. By eating and drinking with "tax collectors and other sinners," Jesus was inviting people to join him in celebrating the eschatological banquet. While there is no single text in the Hebrew Bible or the literature of the Second Temple Period which states the "messiah is like a bridegroom," the elements for such a claim are present in several texts in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea. By claiming that his ministry was an ongoing wedding celebration he signaled the end of the Exile and the restoration of Israel to her position as the Lord's beloved wife. This book argues that Jesus combined the tradition of an eschatological banquet with a marriage metaphor in order to describe the end of the Exile as a wedding banquet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630870331
• Artikelnr.: 55266385

Autorenporträt

Phillip J. Long is Professor of Biblical Studies at Grace Christian University. He is the author of Jesus the Bridegroom (Pickwick, 2012) and he has contributed several articles and book reviews for theological journals. He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Grace Theology. He has served as an interim pastor in Michigan and California and currently serves as the pastor of teaching at Rush Creek Bible Church.

Review of Jesus the Bridegroom in the Review of Biblical Literature