Extreme minimalist historicism = mythicism?

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Giuseppe
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Extreme minimalist historicism = mythicism?

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Often I hear about the view that the historical Jesus was a totally obscure unknown crucified Jew (without no followers before and after the his death) who only 20 years later became useful for the preachers who raised him to both title and status of "Jesus Christ".

Can this version of the HJ be a such vanishing one, that it becomes confused easily with a particular instance of Mythicism?

All that was necessary was that the real Founders of the cult saw or remembered some anonymous Jew crucified by the Romans and said that he was the Christ in human form. A "Christ" who "not even knew himself as Christ" while he died on a Roman cross.

The "real" Christ was crucified "with him and inside him and behind him", therefore the material body could even be left under the sun and the eyes of all the people. For all the practical purposes, that real crucified Jew could not even exist at all.

The point where historicism and mythicism are confused may be also the point to consider the latter more probable than the former (per Occam).
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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