While the Bridegroom is with them'

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 stud...