Daniel B Glover
Biographic Data
| ID | 8868608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel B Glover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel B |
| FAMILY NAME | Glover |
| SIGNATURE | GLOVER D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lee University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4621-7099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Another Orthodox Corruption at Luke 3
Luke 3:21–22 contains a prominent textual variant that Bart Ehrman has argued constitutes an “orthodox corruption of Scripture.” Ehrman focuses on the divine voice at Jesus’s baptism but does not consider another variant found in P4 at that same passage. This textual variant alters the form of the spirit’s descent upon Jesus. This article demonstrates that the copyist of P4 exerted a Platonizing effort to distance Luke 3:21–22 from the concept of…
An Early Date for Acts? Dispensing with Some Recent Arguments
Several recent and noteworthy studies have advocated for an early dating (ca. 62–64) for Luke’s composition of Acts. This article evaluates each argument offered in favor of an early date in these studies and demonstrates that the assumptions undergirding them are problematic. After demonstrating that none of the arguments for an early date are conclusive, this article puts forward evidence that illustrates the viability of a later date for Acts …
What Would an Ancient Person Think of a Talking Cross? Reading Gospel of Peter 10,38–42 as Ancient Mediterranean Religious Literature
Scholars have paid surprisingly scant attention to a strange but important element of the Evangelium Petri —namely, the walking, talking cross ( Evangelium Petri 10,38–42). Those who have given the cross proper attention have not produced convincing or sufficiently analytical interpretations of it. This article argues that the general scholarly inattention owes in part to a failure to acknowledge the “weirdness” of the text, and that to understan…
What Would an Ancient Person Think of Tongues of Fire
This article seeks to answer the question, What would an ancient person have thought of the tongues of fire in Acts 2:1–4 ? In seeking to answer this question, it contextualizes both Luke’s earliest readers and their probable interpretation within ancient Mediterranean literary culture. The article argues that the framework most readily available to such readers would have been epiphany narratives. After demonstrating the validity of this reading…
Theorizing Divine Generation
James 1:16–18 presents a theory of divine generation, which has been interpreted variously. Most commonly, this passage is taken as a reference to Christian conversion, God’s creation of the cosmos, or the creation/election of Israel. While each of these readings is possible, none accounts for all the evidence. By contrast, placing James’s theory of divine generation into conversation with Middle Platonists on the same topic yields some fruitful …
Angel, Apostle, or Apparition? An Angelomorphic Tradition in Acts 12.15c
This article evaluates a potential angelomorphic tradition in Acts 12.15c. It demonstrates that the most common interpretation of the phrase ὁ ἄγγελός ἐστιν αὐτοῦ (‘it is his angel’, 12.15c) as referring to Peter’s guardian angel fails to account adequately for the evidence. After surveying several different proposals for interpreting the phrase, it argues that angelomorphy/angelisation is the most plausible option available to Luke and his earli…
Miracles Today
Between History and Spirit
Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles
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.
Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles
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…
Signs, Wonders, and Gifts
What Are the Disciples Doing around Paul? The ‘Ring-Dance’ in Acts 14.20a
Acts 14.20a contains a peculiar genitive absolute phrase that has been consistently overlooked by scholars and commentators. After Paul is stoned in Lystra and dragged out of the city, Luke notes that the disciples ‘encircle’ him before he gets up (ἀναστὰς). These disciples seem to appear from nowhere, and the standard interpretive options for their ‘encircling’ fall short. In this article, I evaluate all the available interpretive options and su…
Is Josephus Among The Qumranites? Unraveling A Textual Conundrum In 1 Samuel 10
Although Josephus’s biblical works typically reflect a dependence on the LXX, his text of Samuel presents a curious case to Hebrew Bible textual critics. One conundrum is found in 1Sam 10:27b, which includes material not found in the LXX or the MT. The presence of the same plus in 4QSam a complicates the textual discussion. Some scholars take its presence in Josephus and 4QSam a as evidence that the plus was omitted accidentally by the LXX and MT…
The Promises Fulfilled for Whose Children? The Problem of the Text of Acts 13
For over a century, commentators have puzzled over the text of Acts 13:33, in which God fulfills his promises to “children” (τέκνοις), but the manuscript tradition is divided about whose children they are. Most manuscripts, which are late, Byzantine texts, report that God has fulfilled the promises “to their children, us” (τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῶν ἡμῖν). This text is adopted in the majority of modern critical editions of the Greek New Testament, transl…
Present-ing the Past
In his 1990 work of prose fiction Aube Tranquille, Jean-Claude Fignolé, Haitian author and co-founder of the Spiralist literary ethic-aesthetic, considers the extent to which an unresolved revolutionary Haitian history persists in and troubles the global present. His novel-spiral makes Haiti’s pararevolutionary moment pertinent to an understanding of its contemporary fate through a complex and spatio–temporally destabilizing account of one family…
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Present-ing the Past
In his 1990 work of prose fiction Aube Tranquille, Jean-Claude Fignolé, Haitian author and co-founder of the Spiralist literary ethic-aesthetic, considers the extent to which an unresolved revolutionary Haitian history persists in and troubles the global present. His novel-spiral makes Haiti’s pararevolutionary moment pertinent to an understanding of its contemporary fate through a complex and spatio–temporally destabilizing account of one family…
Is Josephus Among The Qumranites? Unraveling A Textual Conundrum In 1 Samuel 10
Although Josephus’s biblical works typically reflect a dependence on the LXX, his text of Samuel presents a curious case to Hebrew Bible textual critics. One conundrum is found in 1Sam 10:27b, which includes material not found in the LXX or the MT. The presence of the same plus in 4QSam a complicates the textual discussion. Some scholars take its presence in Josephus and 4QSam a as evidence that the plus was omitted accidentally by the LXX and MT…
The Promises Fulfilled for Whose Children? The Problem of the Text of Acts 13
For over a century, commentators have puzzled over the text of Acts 13:33, in which God fulfills his promises to “children” (τέκνοις), but the manuscript tradition is divided about whose children they are. Most manuscripts, which are late, Byzantine texts, report that God has fulfilled the promises “to their children, us” (τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῶν ἡμῖν). This text is adopted in the majority of modern critical editions of the Greek New Testament, transl…
What Are the Disciples Doing around Paul? The ‘Ring-Dance’ in Acts 14.20a
Acts 14.20a contains a peculiar genitive absolute phrase that has been consistently overlooked by scholars and commentators. After Paul is stoned in Lystra and dragged out of the city, Luke notes that the disciples ‘encircle’ him before he gets up (ἀναστὰς). These disciples seem to appear from nowhere, and the standard interpretive options for their ‘encircling’ fall short. In this article, I evaluate all the available interpretive options and su…
Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles
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.
Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles
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…
Signs, Wonders, and Gifts
Miracles Today
Between History and Spirit
Theorizing Divine Generation
James 1:16–18 presents a theory of divine generation, which has been interpreted variously. Most commonly, this passage is taken as a reference to Christian conversion, God’s creation of the cosmos, or the creation/election of Israel. While each of these readings is possible, none accounts for all the evidence. By contrast, placing James’s theory of divine generation into conversation with Middle Platonists on the same topic yields some fruitful …
Angel, Apostle, or Apparition? An Angelomorphic Tradition in Acts 12.15c
This article evaluates a potential angelomorphic tradition in Acts 12.15c. It demonstrates that the most common interpretation of the phrase ὁ ἄγγελός ἐστιν αὐτοῦ (‘it is his angel’, 12.15c) as referring to Peter’s guardian angel fails to account adequately for the evidence. After surveying several different proposals for interpreting the phrase, it argues that angelomorphy/angelisation is the most plausible option available to Luke and his earli…
An Early Date for Acts? Dispensing with Some Recent Arguments
Several recent and noteworthy studies have advocated for an early dating (ca. 62–64) for Luke’s composition of Acts. This article evaluates each argument offered in favor of an early date in these studies and demonstrates that the assumptions undergirding them are problematic. After demonstrating that none of the arguments for an early date are conclusive, this article puts forward evidence that illustrates the viability of a later date for Acts …
What Would an Ancient Person Think of a Talking Cross? Reading Gospel of Peter 10,38–42 as Ancient Mediterranean Religious Literature
Scholars have paid surprisingly scant attention to a strange but important element of the Evangelium Petri —namely, the walking, talking cross ( Evangelium Petri 10,38–42). Those who have given the cross proper attention have not produced convincing or sufficiently analytical interpretations of it. This article argues that the general scholarly inattention owes in part to a failure to acknowledge the “weirdness” of the text, and that to understan…
What Would an Ancient Person Think of Tongues of Fire
This article seeks to answer the question, What would an ancient person have thought of the tongues of fire in Acts 2:1–4 ? In seeking to answer this question, it contextualizes both Luke’s earliest readers and their probable interpretation within ancient Mediterranean literary culture. The article argues that the framework most readily available to such readers would have been epiphany narratives. After demonstrating the validity of this reading…
Another Orthodox Corruption at Luke 3
Luke 3:21–22 contains a prominent textual variant that Bart Ehrman has argued constitutes an “orthodox corruption of Scripture.” Ehrman focuses on the divine voice at Jesus’s baptism but does not consider another variant found in P4 at that same passage. This textual variant alters the form of the spirit’s descent upon Jesus. This article demonstrates that the copyist of P4 exerted a Platonizing effort to distance Luke 3:21–22 from the concept of…
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