Five times throughout the course of Luke's narrative in Acts, an individual character is identified as (a) god. Rarely have scholars read these deification scenes within their narrative and historical settings with sufficient care. With regard to the narrative setting, scholars working on the deification scenes tend to take one or another as normative and read the remaining acclamations in light of a particular interpretation of that one pericope. However, such reading strategies run aground when they arrive at the final acclamation (28:1-10), which breaks the exegetical bow of the interpretive ship. In this study, Daniel B. Glover evaluates the deification scenes in the Book of Acts by locating them within the broader ancient Mediterranean context of deification. He offers a fresh reading of Acts that situates each of the five scenes within a distinct literary pattern recognizable to its earliest readers. "This study is exceptional for its multilayered engagement with Greco-Roman literature and conceptualities, its refusal to employ polemical and insider terms, and its courage to date Acts in the second century (about 120-130 CE). The chapters are well organized, well written, and well proofed. Glover's knowledge of the secondary literature in English and German is solid and detailed up until about 2021. Glover's overall thesis strikes me as solid." M. David Litwa , Review of Biblical Literature (04/24)