"There are no historical references to Jesus from his time or the generation after. Anyone who says there is, show me."

Okay. HERE.

I make no brief for his supposed divinity, but there are contemporary historical references to a "Jesus" (Greek translation of the name Joshua), or of a Joshua or Yeshua bar Joseph ("son of Joseph") who was a teacher, had a number of followers, according to stories (unsubstantiated) performed wonders, and who made a sufficient pain in the neck of himself that he was executed by crucifixion.

Make of it what you will.

Don Firth