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>>242520 Most people are unaware how slim the historical record really is until, say, the 1400's. There's lots of stuff we have only a single source for, and often that source wrote long after the fact, and/or is copying another source now lost -- like the Gospels. The broad outlines of Jesus' life are as well-attested as those of any other private citizen's on the edge of the Empire's might be. Apollonius's life, for example, is known in less detail but I've never read anyone suggesting that he didn't exist at all.
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