How well do the much-touted similarities of the Jesus story to other myths hold up?

[Promethean]

20. So about the historical accuracy of the Jesus story.

I read a book by a historian and he laid it out like this but of course much wordier.

There was a time period when the Romans ruled over the Hebrews and weren't exactly nice about it. This isn't surprising as they weren't nice to anybody that they conquered. There was an upper class of wealthy Hebrews who worked with the Romans and basically ran the religion. There were a lot of street preachers at that time with doomsday and anti-wealth messages. It is likely at least one of those preachers got a following. It is not unreasonable that a radicalized preacher would ransack one of the symbols of wealth of the wealthy overclass. It is not unreasonable that a radical preacher that got a following and/or attacked the wealthy would get arrested and executed. Jesus was a commonly used name back then. The tradition is still carried forward to this day in some cultures (how many Hey-soos' do you know?). Finally; people tell stories, they miss-attribute people for deeds, they mix up names and other common errors.

Mix the previous in with ideas from other well known mythologies and viola.