Virgin birth, being the son of (a) god, and rising from the dead are all sort of "standard" (or at least often-used) features of religions of the period.

As far as I know from what reading I've done, there seems to be no contemporary documentation on such a Yeshua/Joshua/Jesus. Everything we know on his existence documentary-wise was written at least forty years later, by people already firmly in the Christian camp.

Of course that doesn't prove the negative, which is a hard thing to do under the best of circumstances.

Dave Oesterreich