and again, the phrasing 'careful documentation' is anachronistic at best. We moderns, most of us, do not really know what to do with revelatory narrative. Or midrash. The synoptic gospels contradict each other in a myriad of ways about seemingly the most basic of facts; plenty of adherents are totally fine with this because it is quite clear that there are other rhetorical games afoot than "write down what happened just like a police report" style of historical recording.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelby_Spong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar
https://ntwrightpage.com/2016/07/12/how-can-the-bible-be-aut...
and again, the phrasing 'careful documentation' is anachronistic at best. We moderns, most of us, do not really know what to do with revelatory narrative. Or midrash. The synoptic gospels contradict each other in a myriad of ways about seemingly the most basic of facts; plenty of adherents are totally fine with this because it is quite clear that there are other rhetorical games afoot than "write down what happened just like a police report" style of historical recording.