Historical Jesus, Biblical Jesus

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Thanks. Now I know that I need to read all the letters that say they're from Paul, to see if there are any other mentions of what Jesus said and did during his lifetime, not counting after his resurrection, if I really want to know. (to self: Hm. Do I really want to know, enough to put that much time into it?)

Easy!  If you download Paul's letters then you can use 'search' with the name 'Jesus' and you will see that there isn't a single anecdote or story about anything that Jesus said or did.

I did that already. I found three possible examples, but for my purposes in that search there would need to be many more.

Here, Jim.  In On The Historicity of Jesus, Carrier quotes the following passage.

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2. The Peculiar Indifference of Paul and his Christians

As a psychologist once put it (about Paul's letter to fellow congregants in
Rome, whom he had not yet met and thus can't have shared his own stories
with):

Imagine for a moment that one of your friends writes you a twenty-page
letter passionately wanting to share her excitement about a new teacher.
This letter has only one topic, your friend's new teacher. [But] at the end
of her letter, you still do not know one thing about her teacher. Yet, Paul
presents the central figure of his theology this way  ..
.. It [seems] impossible to imagine how Paul could avoid telling one story or parable of--or
fail to note one physical trait or personal quality of-Jesus.
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Indeed, Paul mentions 'Jesus' or 'Christ' in his seven authentic letters at
least 280 times-and that doesn't count other references to him as only 'the
Lord' or 'Son of God'. Altogether, Paul found over three hundred occasions to mention Jesus (by some name or title), and on at least half of those occasions he tells us some particular fact or other about this Jesus. But (as we'll see) not one of those facts connects Jesus with an earthly life.

Pg 514

So much of this jesus shit is desperately imagining that they see what they want to see.