> the historical consensus is that the gospels are largely mythic constructs and we can know very little about the historical person. absolutely not.  pretty much all mainstream historians agree at a minimum that jesus was a real historical person who travelled through the area teaching and amassing some kind of following and eventually pissed off the authorities to the point that they crucified him.  all of the miracles, raising people from the dead, etc are matters of faith, but the basic story of jesus and the early christians told in the gospels, acts, peters letters and other books of the new testament don't read like mythological fiction at all. it reads like people recounting real world events that actually happened with a realism that isn't found in most mythology or really fiction in general until fairly recently when people started writing realistic novels. other than the miraculous/supernatural aspects, the core biographical story of jesus the man isn't really suspicious or hard to believe at all. there were other people around the same time going around telling everyone that they were the messiah, getting followers, stirring up trouble and then getting executed, and no one thinks they were mythic constructs rather than historical people.
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