re: #502 Resistance is futile. You’ll be discombobulated.

No, we’re arguing about the approaches to historicity of Jesus. I rely on certain authors, while you try to derive “Jesus by definition” - i.e. to assign the label to whoever the author of that system of teaching was. Since it is quite possible that there was no single author, I don’t see why this approach should work.

whoever it was who wrote shakespeare’s plays is “shakespeare”. the best evidence of “shakespeare” is his plays, not contemporary mentions of him