Yet from the purely historical point of view its evidential value is not the same as that of St Mark.
His Reasons for the Christian Religion is still, for its evidential purpose, better than most works of its kind.
Its relatively uncritical use of the sources reveals the need for more in-depth studies of the evidential basis.
He also questions the evidential base on which the apparently swingeing criticisms are based.
Unfortunately, evidential collectivism is not the uniform style of Italian science and/or Australian science, nor even any single laboratory within those countries.