American New Testament scholar and former Baptist pastor Robert M. Price (born 1954) has questioned the historicity of Jesus in a series of books, including "Deconstructing Jesus" (2000), "The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man" (2003), "Jesus Is Dead" (2007) and "The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems" (2011). Price uses critical-historical methods, but also uses "history-of-religions parallel", or the "Principle of Analogy", to show similarities between Gospel narratives and non-Christian Middle Eastern myths. Price criticises some of the criteria of critical Bible research, such as the criterion of dissimilarity and the criterion of embarrassment. Price further notes that "consensus is no criterion" for the historicity of Jesus. According to Price, if critical methodology is applied with ruthless consistency, one is left in complete agnosticism regarding Jesus's historicity.