Proteus wrote:

Just as there apparently was a historical person around whom legends developed,
and the name "Robin Hood" got attached;
so also there probably was a historical person around whom legends developed,
and the name "Jesus of Nazareth" either got attached or was there from the start. 
"Davy Crockett," for example, was the real name of a real person who became legendary.

The latter legends developed further into the Christian myth.

The bone of contention between Gideon and myself is that he appears to propose
either (1) that there actually never was any such historical person,
or (2) that if there was one, the person lived sometime other than the First Century.

I propose that there was such a person, and that this individual lived ~1 C.E. - ~30 C.E.

Oh, now I understand what you're saying. That you believe that there really was a human named jesus that lived sometime around 1 CE. Well, maybe. Who cares?

As Sophiee said in post #4

It is totally immaterial to a Jew if Jesus was real or fictional -- it is not important to us at all 
It can neither be proved or disproved. There were probably multiple people who had that name. If there was one, then there is no reason that a dozen people didn't have the same name. Would you dispute that more than one person had that name at that time?