Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

A question to the skeptics: Why do you believe Jesus of Nazareth was not a real person?

Well I'm a skeptic .(one who questions and demands proof) I try to avoid truth claims,insisting all questions remain open,most especially one's strongest beliefs.

A have never asserted a man called something liked Yeshua/Yoshua bar Yusuf did not exist. ('Jesus' is a Romanised version of the Greek name Iesous.The New Testament was written in Greek.) That he did not live in a town called Nazareth. That he was not a wondering teacher with a small band of followers. Or that he was not crucified in Jerusalem by the Romans for sedition, a not uncommon fate for a Jew under Roman occupation. These things are all plausible and may well be true,or not. I do not claim to know; I neither believe nor disbelieve.

However,there is not only no credible evidence for the existence of an historical Jesus, is there no credible evidence that the town of Nazareth existed in the first century ce.*

I make a distinction between a putative Yeshua bar Yusuf,who may have founded a small, insignificant Jewish sect,and the Jesus of the New Testament. The former may have existed. It's possible the latter existed. However,so far I've seen no credible evidence that he was/is anything more than derivative myth and wishful thinking.


*There are no contemporary records of Nazareth and the first non Christian record dates from the third century,as far as I'm aware.