Most of the stories about Jesus were written many years after his death, when his cult had developed into an actual religion. Of course any stories about the founder of a religion are going to be exaggerated. Most of the more incredible stories in the Bible are apocryphal -- legends, morality tales and fables to emphasise the teachings of the church. There's no historical evidence for most of them. Look at the story of Exodus for example. There's no evidence to suggest that the Hebrews were ever slaves of the Egyptians. A lot of them lived there, yes, and a whole bunch of them got kicked out around the 19th or 20th Dynasty, but they weren't slaves, just trouble-making foreign settlers.
The comments about women are interesting. Certainly in some tribal cultures, women play an active role in matchmaking, but most tribal leaders are men. In more advanced societies, the leaders are almost always men, from the time of the Sumerians. Egypt had several female Pharaohs such as Nitocris, Hapshetsut and Cleopatra, but apart from Cleopatra these queens were not popular and either killed themselves (Nitocris) or were deposed (Hapshetsut). The Ancient Athenians did not even consider women to be citizens. Women have had more of a role in world affairs since the advent of Christianity than before it.
