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Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

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The bestselling follow-up to Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. Includes a reader’s guide and an excerpt from Pitre’s The Case for Jesus. 

In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what’s arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was once far more than a tragic Roman execution. As an alternative, the Passion of Christ was once the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding, when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant.
 
To make certain, most Christians are aware of the apostle Paul’s teaching that Christ is the ‘Bridegroom’ and the Church is the ‘Bride’. But what does this in point of fact mean? And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you would have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the “great mystery” (Ephesians 5:32)?
 
As Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can also be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing all of the history of salvation, from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary, as a divine love story between Writer and creature, between God and Israel, between Christ and his bride—a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman cross. 
 
In the pages of Jesus the Bridegroom, dozens of familiar passages in the Bible—the Exodus, the Song of Songs, the Wedding at Cana, the Woman at the Well, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and even the Second Coming at the End of Time—are abruptly transformed before our eyes. Indeed, when seen in the light of Jewish Scripture and tradition, the life of Christ is nothing less than the greatest love story ever told.

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