Thanks Albeit numerous scholars particularly from Continental Europe do in fact prove many variances of Murray s hypothesis whether or not many British and American scholars like that fact my point in bringing this to your attention was that as the phrase was stated it implies to the reader that Alexander Brooks is a professional historian when he is not Although I find it somewhat ironic that JB Russell can be a lot more objective eg his book on evil and the Devil when he is also an Evangelical Christian while Prof Ronald Hutton can not and Hutton is an Initiated Gardnerian