Posted: Aug 29, 2013 3:06 pm
This (and similar) forum would be more fruitful as many points of view and assessments get aired. Ehrman's take is just one perspective.
Since the evidence relevant to the historicity question is rather limited it would seem possible to do searches according to the specific topic (say Josephus, Origen, 'brother of the lord', Talmudic references, etc) and get a wide variety of arguments regarding the significance of each bit, with some real give and take.