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Jesus the Bridegroom: The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

Phillip J. Long 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. When Jesus says in Mark 2:19 that the wedding guests should not fast “while the bridegroom is with them,” he is claiming to be a bridegroom by intentionally alluding to a rich tradition from the Hebrew Bible. By eating and...

followers. A Jew living in Palestine in the first century would be able to understand the point of a Jewish teacher who talked about a kingdom and selected twelve men as his disciples.3 Similarly, Davies and Allison deny that there are any Second Temple period sources for the idea of a messianic feast as a wedding banquet.4 Yet the image of a banquet clearly appears in the Synoptic Gospels in both the actions of Jesus as well as his teaching. In his table fellowship Jesus invites all people to eat
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