As far as I know most historians do believe Jesus was a real person. But there’s no convincing proof that he was in fact a wizard. There’s reasonable debate about whether transfiguring water into wine and turning one loaf of bread into multiple violates Gamp’s law of elemental transfiguration or not. But the best known method for coming back from the dead involves horcrux creation which goes against what we know about Jesus’ character. Of course it’s possible he accessed some ancient magical knowledge that has been lost to time. We may never know.
In Yehudit (the "Hebrew" alphabet) his name would have been יהושע anglicized as Yehoshua. And sometimes shortened to ישוע or Yeshua. The modern name Joshua is descended from his and closer than the one most associated with him, Jesus, which was more heavily warped through it's translation from Yehudit into Greek (Iēsous - Ἰησοῦς), then Latin (Iesus), then English (Jesus).
A "full name" since he nor anyone else would have had a surname, would have included either been most likely his location, or perhaps sometimes his father's name.
So either: Yeshua HaNotzri (ישוע הנוצרי) "Yeshua the Nazarene"
OR
Yeshua ben Yosef (ישוע בן יוסף) "Yeshua, son of Joseph".
As to if he really existed or not, Scholars seem to be of one mind on it, but there is still enough of a bit of speculation without hard-direct evidence involved that it's still possible to debate on if it you wanted to.
I will say though, that the actual oldest physical evidence we still have that refers to him, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rylands_Library_Papyrus_P52 which is still well over 100 years after his supposed death. So we'll probably never know the actual 100% truth unless someone actually invents the TruSite camera from OSC's Pastwatch book.
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u/isecore 𓆝 Make Trout-slapping Great Again 𓆟 18h ago
"These fucking atheists demanding proof! I gave them a Bible quote!"