This valuable multi-author volume honours William Horbury and reflects the extraordinary breadth of his own scholarship. Addressing questions about messianic ideas and hopes, the twenty-one contributions range widely. Topics include the Persian period (Joachim Schaper), the Hasmonean period (Jan Willem van Henten), the Herodian period (Sean Freyne), Plutarch and the ‘Graeco-Roman’ period (Hans Dieter Betz), the Jesus tradition (Markus Bockmuehl), the Synoptic Gospels (Graham Stanton), the Johannine writings (Judith Lieu), Paul (Andrew Chester), Catholic epistles (David Horrell), Revelation (Paul Spilsbury), Jewish Messianism, 66–135 ce (Martin Goodman), Jewish and Christian interactions in the Holy Land, 135–325 ce (Oskar Skarsaune), Syria and Mesopotamia (Sebastian Brock), Egypt (James Carleton Paget), the Roman west and north Africa (Wolfram Kinzig), evidence from material remains (David Noy), rabbis and Messianism (Philip Alexander), Greek and Latin Bible translations (Alison Salvesen), Aramaic and Syriac translations (Robert Gordon), Jewish/Christian Messianic hopes in pre-Islamic Byzantium (Nicholas de Lange) and seventh-century Jewish and Christian ideas of prophet and false prophet and the appearance of Islam in Jerusalem (Guy Stroumsa). Although the authors certainly do not speak with one voice, one theme in many of the contributions is Horbury's emphasis that Messianic ideas were both more widespread and more important than often thought. Treatments of biblical texts and times are all competent and engaging, and are complemented by a number of valuable studies of material and themes less frequent in standard discussions of Messianism. Indeed, the breadth and diversity of evidence, geography and chronology probably makes this a unique collection of studies on Messianic ideas. The calibre of the contributors and the breadth of their collective expertise is also a fitting tribute to Horbury's own impressively broad interests and abilities. All serious theological libraries will want to include this stimulating volume in their holdings.