BOOK REVIEW: Maurice Casey’s Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? “A recurring theme is that the skeptics do not understand how historians work. The mythicist sees contradictory sources as evidence that the claims are false, while the ancient historian uses them to separate the plausible from the less plausible. The mythicist builds his reconstructions on what he finds in the sources, while the ancient historian considers the sources as incomplete and investigates what they represent. The mythicist wants something to be either true or false, while the ancient historian sees probabilities. The mythicist, Casey summarizes, thinks like a fundamentalist: the written sources contain all information you need and have to be consistent.”