Hi Steve,
Well I think I'm getting closer. What Szekely claimed to find certainly makes a lot of sense, and fits with the direction in which I've been heading. I think it is consistent with Salibi's material on The Bible Came From Arabia, which you read last year, one of the few who did, probably given the length of that article. I am engaged in other projects at the moment, but will return to it.
Agree with you about the obfuscation surrounding the other figures. That seems to be the way of all religions. The difference with Christianity is that it was done so deliberately by the RC Church.