Just here on Easter to remind you that Jesus was a real historical figure
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All missing. There is also no historical Abraham, Moses, or Joshua. Many scholars agree on that.
That's what I came up with as well. Historically the 12 Tribes of Israel are closer to the 12 Tribes of Yemen. Stories from all over put together in what we now call the OT and the NT. It's all made up as best as I can see.
Most likely there was a person named Jesus, or Yeshua/Iesous, of Nazareth. Jesus was probably born in Nazareth. And “Yeshua” was among the most popular male names in the 1st-century Palestine. Jesus didn't have a last name and people used "Jesus(Yeshua) of Nazareth" or "Jesus(Yeshua) the Nazarene" the common way to differentiate him. This referred to his place of origin, Nazareth, a small town in the region of Galilee.
"Christ" is not his last name that's just a title. According to scholars the word "Christ" comes from the verb “anoint” and typically refers to someone who has just had a rubdown (with oil). “Christ” was a title in Jewish circles, however, as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word “messiah”.
The question I have then... why would they choose a real person to make up a story. A wonderful story no doubt about that, but still a made-up story. Jesus came from a poor Jewish family. His parents were Galilean peasants. What if this person, Jesus, decided to tell the truth about the Jews and the Romans and what this cabal were doing at that time, killing innocent people left and right. Just like they're doing today, same cabal... same genocide, but now in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. They couldn't use antisemitism (or whatever it was called then) to discredit him, he was Jewish. They could only kill him, which is what they ended up doing trying hard not to make him a martyr. But, that didn't work out too well, Jesus had a very large following. So, they killed him and then decided to write a story and a narrative they (the Empire) could control. "never let a good crisis go to waste" - Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff, 2008
There is not much story in New Testament. We don't even know what Jesus do as a God in human flesh for decades, except that he could be a carpenter as His foster father. So, for a made-up story it is too specific and Gospels looks exactly like journalist reports by different journalists about event, not a story about person Himself.
The Empire didn't control the "story" at all. At first, Romans account followers of the "story" as a strange bu harmless small community, then as a threat to Empire and tried to exterminate all of them, and finally Rome itself fall into the "story". That's not how controlled narrative work.
Apart from theology, New Testament is basically is an opposite to the Old Testament story that glorified a single tribe and justified their crimes against humanity. Both parts become a perfect example and severe warning for all humanity of why and how to not become Jews.
It is not hard to imagine that Jews will always try to undermine such manual, creatung "new translations" and "new interpretations". And if you add a theology, then it become obvious why Jews always tried to create a narrative that Christianity is something weak, boring and controlled.