The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “Isn’t The Gospel Of Thomas A Legitimate Source About The Historical Jesus?” in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless 
Will The Real Jesus Please Stand Up? A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan (ed., Paul Copan)
Jesus’ Resurrection: Fact or Figment? A Debate Between William Lane Craid and Gerd Ludemann (eds., Paul Copan and Ronald Tacelli)
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus vol. 1 (John P. Meier)
Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents The Historical Jesus (eds., Michael Wilkins and J.P. Moreland)
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Hello!
My name is Anders Branderud and I am from Sweden.
Historical Scholars in leading universities (for example Bart Ehrman) agrees that NT has been redacted.
So who then was the historical Jesus?
Ribi Yehoshua said:
“Don’t think that I came to uproot the Torah or the Neviim [prophets], but rather I came to reconcile them with the Oral Law of emet (truth). Should the heavens and ha-aretz (the land, particularly referring to Israel) exchange places, still, not even one ‘ (yod) nor one ` (qeren) of the Oral Law of Mosheh shall so much as exchange places; until it shall become that it is all being fully ratified and performed non-selectively. For whoever deletes one Oral Law from the Torah, or shall teach others such, by those in the Realm of the heavens he shall be called “deleted.” Both he who preserves and he who teaches them shall be called Ribi in the Realm of the heavens. For I tell you that unless your Tzedaqah (righteousness) is over and above that of the Sophrim (Torah Scribes), and of the [probably 'Herodian'] Rabbinic-Perushim (corrupted to “Pharisees”), there is no way you will enter into the Realm of the heavens! “
NHM 5:17-20
If you want to learn about the Historical Ribi Yehoshua, whom Orthodox Jews can live with (witness the Netzarim Jews in Raanana, Israel, members in good standing in an Orthodox synagogue), I recommend you to read books like How Jesus Became Christian by Prof. Barrie Wilson (most bookstores) and Who Are The Netzarim? (publ. http://www.schuellerhouse.com) by Israeli Orthodox Jew, Paqid Yirmeyahu Ben-David.
So why not start following Ribi Yehoshua? To follow him by practising the commandments in Torah gives true meaning of life!!
From Anders Branderud
Geir Toshav, Netzarim in Ra’anana in Israel (ww.netzarim.co.il) who are followers of Ribi Yehoshua – Messiah – in Orthodox Judaism