'While the bridegroom is with them' : marriage, family, gender and violence in the Gospel of Matthew
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'While the bridegroom is with them' : marriage, family, gender and violence in the Gospel of Matthew
(Journal for the study of the New Testament : supplement series, 292)
T&T Clark International, c2005
- : hbk
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  Toyama
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  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-213) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Interpreters of Matthew's Parable of the Wedding Feast (22.1-14) typically associate the 'king' with God and then justify his violent attacks against city and guests; interpreters of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (25.1-13) typically associate the 'bridegroom' with Jesus and then justify his extreme rejection of the 'foolish virgins.' Questioning such allegorical interpretations, this study first details how Hebrew, Greek, and Roman texts depict - without requiring allegorical understandings - numerous bridegrooms associated not only with joy but also with violence and death. Second, this project appeals to the disruptive nature of parables, the feminist technique of resisting reading, and the Matthean Jesus's own ethical instructions to argue that in the parables, those who resist violent rulers and uncaring bridegrooms are the ones worthy of the Kingdom. The study then shows how the Matthean Jesus - the brideless, celibate bridegroom -- creates a fictive family by disrupting biological and marital ties, redefining masculinity, and undermining the desirability of marriage and procreation. JSNTS 292
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. THE BRIDEGROOM AND VIOLENCE
- The Deity as Bridegroom or Husband
- The Bridegroom in Pauline Thought
- The Bridegroom in Revelation
- Bridegrooms and Violence as a Literary Trope in Greco-Roman
- Contexts
- Violence as a Cultural Foundation for Marriage
- Conclusion
- INTRODUCTION TO THE WEDDING PARABLES
- II. THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST (Mt. 22.1-14)
- Introduction
- Violence in the Matthean Redaction...
- The Wedding Banquet
- The King's Slaves
- The Call and Refusal
- The Second Invitation: 'Come to the Feast'
- The Burned City
- The Next Group of Guests
- The Guest without a Wedding Garment
- Many Are Called but Few are Chosen
- Conclusion
- III. THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS (Mt. 25.1-13)
- Introduction
- Ten Virgins Go to Meet the Bridegroom
- Wise and Foolish
- Ten Virgins: the Full Measure
- Lamps and Oil
- The Bridegroom's Delay
- The Cry at Midnight
- Go Buy for Yourselves
- The Door
- 'I Never Knew You'
- Conclusion
- IV. THE BRIDEGROOM'S FICTIVE FAMILY
- Introduction
- Households in the First Century
- Voluntary Associations as Fictive Families
- The Bridegroom's Fictive Family and Disruption of Kinship Bonds
- The 'Sons of the Bridal Chamber'
- Joseph as Model for Adoptive Fatherhood
- Eunuchs for the Kingdom
- Fatherhood and Motherhood in Matthew
- 'The Slaughter of the Innocents' and Violence in the Matthean
- Family
- Conclusion. V. THE ABSENT BRIDE, ANGELS, AND ANDROGYNY: SEXUALITY IN MATTHEW
- Introduction
- The Absent Bride
- Like the Angels: No Marriage in Heaven
- One Flesh: the Primordial Androgyne and Sexuality in Matthew
- Except for Porneia: Marriage and Divorce in Matthew
- Conclusion
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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