[eigenheart]

The criteria with which you dismiss the historical Jesus is also applicable to any other historical figure of antiquity. By your measure, no one without a photograph, video, or audio recording can be counted as anything other than a myth. The historical Jesus is very real (as is His Divinity, but that is beyond the scope of this response).

[finndark]

Jesus is ahistorical - no documents, no records. Everything about him written long after he died.

In contrast Pontius Pilate is historical - there are extant documents with his name and title.

Simply b/c Pontius Pilate was real doesn't mean Jesus Christ was real. And it certainly doesn't mean he rose from the dead!