ABSTRACT
This article adapts a response initially given to panelists at the Pauline Epistles section of the Society of Biblical Literature 2016 Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Specifically, it focuses on Christine Hayes’s written review essay. In my response, I provide an overview of the broader argument I make in my book on Matthew, Paul, and the law; outline some similarities and differences between my book and Matthew Thiessen’s; interact with some critical comments that have been directed toward my work; and provide some avenues of future research in studies of Paul and the law that draw from the field of legal anthropology and that deploy more theoretically sophisticated approaches to comparison and comparative law than have typically been the case in Matthean and Pauline scholarship on law.
