However, I do take exception to his claim that there is circumstantial evidence to support that a prototype of Jesus existed between 1 CE and 30 CE -- there is actually no circumstantial (or any other) kind of evidence [...]

You can deny the evidence, but it won't go away.

P.

“What I admire is honesty and truth, no matter who, or what, the sources are.”
— Uri Yosef