Hurtado, "Freed by Love and for Love: Freedom in the New Testament", footnote 26: "Glancy often seems to me to draw curious conclusions that approach interpretative violence upon texts, e.g., accusing Paul of contradicting his own egalitarian-sounding statement in Gal. 3:28 by using metaphors of slavery and heirs in the same epistle (Slavery in Early Christianity, 34-38). I hardly see that Paul’s use of these metaphors “reinscribes” or “insists upon” the validity of social distinctions of slaves and free. Instead, seen in its setting, Paul’s rhetoric actually subverts in various ways the rhetorical and cultural categories of his time. Likewise, her discussion of 1 Thess. 4:3-8 (pp. 59-63) involves contradictory interpretative moves, a confusion of questions addressed, and also a failure to take account of Paul’s Jewish background in understanding his statements here. In textual interpretation as well as other areas of life, it is well to “do to others as you would have them do to you”!"
