The bible records that there were over 500 eyewitnesses to Christ’s resurrection. Do you accept them as witnesses? I sincerely doubt you will.
If he was responding to the Christian heresy,
***Then by that early date in history, this “heresy” was already claiming that Jesus was put to death for claiming equality with God. There’s no evidence that this creeped in over hundreds of years. It was being loudly proclaimed by the year AD30-AD35, right out of the gate.
So do you accept that this rabbi was a historical person dealing with his own contemporary issue surrounding christianity at his time? Or does his name have to be written into stone for you to accept historicity?
I can’t accept the 500 as witnesses until I know their names. I can’t evaluate their testimony until it is provided.
Absent that, they may have witnessed something, but we don’t know what, and don’t know them from the drunk who drove the beer wagon.
We have no evidence that it was proclaimed in AD30-35.
It may have been. We don’t have any evidence of that until much later.