"Everything is ready: come to the marriage banquet"
Subtitle: the parable of the invitation to the royal marriage banquet (Matt 22,1-14) in the context of Matthew's Gospel
By: Joseph Nalpathilchira
Series: Analecta biblica -- 196; Analecta biblica -- 196.
Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9788876531965
Subjects: Great supper (Parable); Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Bibel; Matthäusevangelium
Other titles: Parable of the invitation to the royal marriage banquet
Notes: Slightly Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction; title: Parable interpretation : ancient and modern, new methodological considerations; title: Preliminary observations on Matt 22,1-14; title: The reign of heaven as commensality with the Son in the presence of the Father : exegetical analysis of Matt 22,1-14; title: The immediate context of Matt 22,1-14 : Matt 21,23; title: 22,46, revelation and denouncement : Jesus' identity and the dynamics of the reign of heaven revealed, the hypocrisy of the Jewish elite denounced; title: The global context of Matt 22,1-14 : bridegroom, banqueting and judgment motifs in the First Gospel as a whole; title: General conclusion.