<p>Essays in this volume from Vernon K. Robbins merge social and rhetorical strategies of interpretation and set the stage for socio-rhetorical interpretation as it is currently practiced in the context of research in the SBL&rsquo;s Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity program unit. The book contains Robbins&#39;s 1978 version of his essay on the we-passages in the Acts of the Apostles as sea voyages which initially received widespread praise and then became an object of significant criticism. Robbins presents a detailed response to the positive uses and negative criticisms of his approach.</p>