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[Warren DeMontague]

29. The research I've read speculates that a few things may have happened, primarily a mystery cult

like that of Mithras, etc. which had an entirely mythical "Jesus" figure who had no objective historical reality, and then around 100-200 CE it got transmogrified retroactively into a historical existence. If you look at the records from the "time of" Jesus, there is no indication, outside the Bible, that such a figure was running around. There were, as you allude, many sorts of leaders, figures, charismatic preachers or rabbis, etc. and some of what became the historical "Jesus" may have been based on some of those guys, too.