Other than the blog I cited I would like to know why you feel this way.
Because I've spent about fifteen years immersed in the texts from that area. I've read Josephus and Philo. I've read Tacitus, Ovid, and Suetonius, among several dozen others. I've read most of the non-canonicals. With the one exception of Josephus, they treated the eastern provinces as a collection of cow-towns in a hick province, when they mentioned it _at all_.
And because I've also kept up on the scholarship regarding that area. You fundamentally have two schools of thought regarding first century ANE history: the "devotional" writers, who have religious "skin in the game," and the (now I'm going to let my bias show) real historians, who follow the evidence.
The "devotional" authors will at least mention the Christ-Mythers, because for them it's an easy debating win. Hey, they can show how effective their apologetics are by defeating these half-bakes Mythers! The real historians? Voco, for the most part, they don't even bother giving Christ Myth writings the time of day. The Christ Myth hypothesis is so far out in left field that most scholars don't even consider them in the ball park.
I want to inquire more about this but I get caught up in the if someone told me that someone was able to bring the dead back to life and could also walk on water and turn that same water to wine you would be ok with relying on the say so of people who said so decades after the person who could do this has passed and no other person since then has been able to duplicate.
Again, Voco, you're getting caught up in literalism. Of course Jesus didn't walk on water. Of curse he didn't bring anybody back from the dead. Those legends got added in after Paul stopped writing, but before the Gospels got written--they developed as part of the
oral tradition. Miracle-working teachers and messianic claimants were reputed to be as common as cow-pats in Galilee (not nearly so common in Judea proper), so the stories about miracles got attached to the teachings of a failed apocalyptic preacher.
Have you read the new testament?
Both in Greek (haltingly--my Greek was never that good) and in English. Guess what, Voco--it doesn't make a difference. The stories about the "saints rising up from their graves" still didn't happen in history. Again, this was a story that got added in under the oral tradition, and the unknown author of GoMatthew thought it made for a good theological argument.
One big reason the Gospels were so successful is by the time they were written, all (or at least most) the eyewitnesses were dead.