Presumably you mean the comment of a critic even the most learned and gifted of historians should observe a speed limit referring to a work for general readers that it was felt tried to pack too much material into too short a space but as you see the reviewer does not doubt that Grant was the most learned and gifted of historians His religious position is irrelevant the whole point of his book Jesus An Historian s Review of the Gospels was to approach the historical figure of Jesus as a trained historian the same way he did the figure of Cleopatra for instance and his position on Egyptian or Hellenistic religion was irrelevant in that case also But as I keep saying please find another historian if you don t like that one who has published on the question Was there ever such a person as Jesus and then he or she can be quoted in the article too