After Williams’s meticulous analysis of the comparatively scarce material from Pliny, Tacitus, and Lucian, more could have been done with Celsus’s lengthy polemic, and the surviving material from the anti-Christian polemics by Porphyry, Sossianus Hierocles and Julian would also be worth analysis. Nevertheless, Williams has accomplished an impressive and stimulatingly fresh reading of the material, where her background in Classical studies serves as a valuable corrective to the previous analyses by Biblical scholars and Church historians. Her book is well worth including in any discussion of Jesus’s historicity or pagan reception of early Christianity.