Messianism Among Jews and Christians

William Horbury considers the issue of messianism as it arises in Jewish and Christian tradition. Whilst Horbury''s primary focus is the Herodian period and the New Testament, he presents a broader historical trajectory, looking back to the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, and onward to Judaism and Christianity in the Roman empire. Within this framework Horbury treats such central themes as messianis...