Having just cited Pervo, I should
note at the outset that his work is occasionally cited and engaged in this
study (especially in Chapters 4 and 5) because several arguments he made are
relevant to our subject matter, and failure to attribute the origination of
such information would, of course, be plagiarism—or at least misleading. The
guild of New Testament scholarship of an earlier period, too, was rife with
anti-Semites (e.g., Kittel); nevertheless, the work of such figures is
occasionally relevant to the task at hand. Engagement with the work of
arguments of Pervo and other persons of low moral standing should in no way be
understood as an endorsement of their lives or characters, which would be both
flawed and disturbing; neither should citation of any scholar here be so
regarded. (Daniel B. Glover, Patters of Deification in the Acts of the
Apostles [Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe
576; Tūbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022], 13 n. 34)
