Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are "mythologized history." In other words, based on the evidence available they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef gathered a following and his life and teachings provide...
The title says: "Findings Cast Doubt..."
One might expect that the core of the essay will be .... findings.
One might expect that as with most commonly taught English writing practices, the first paragraph would both outline the point, and give a brief summary of the point.
Seven, eight paragraphs in, the 'Findings' are still being teased.
This type of article ... accurate or not, is working through a 'Palm reader' technique, where they build up a series of 'connections with the subject', a long line of 'Yeses' then they slowly begin to introduce _their points. The technique is able to slip past some percent of critical thinking, because the person has been led down a path of agreements.
Again accurate or not, it couches the 'Findings' in a sea of 'everyone knows', 'modern scholars agree' , 'doubts have existed from the beginning'. These are not facts, they are well worded disparaging digs, which contextualize the subject to their bias.
as long as we don't have a time machine, Jesus' existence is an unfalsifiable claim. Of course you're not going to see definitive proof that he didn't exist