Yes, it has, but I have a splitting headache and as it's gone 1 AM I'm not going to
search out the sources right now! There's a story, I'm not certain of the date right now, that Jesus was the son of a
Roman soldier called Pandera. The name is known, from a
Roman tombstone I believe, and the allegation of bastardy is supported to some extent by Matthew's Gospel;
his story of the Virgin birth could well have been a response to some such tale. But the Pandera story is much later.
A
good, but not academic, source on the Jews in
Roman times is 'the Jews in the
Roman world' by Michael Grant. 'Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism', ed. Hershel Shanks (SPCK, 1993), is more academic and goes up to the end of the 6th Century. I don't have anything which gives a detailed account of the later period in my own
library, but there's an outline in the Pelican book on 'Judaism' by Isidore Epstein, and it has a bibliography, and Hans Kung covers it briefly in
his 'Judaism' (Piper Verlag, 1991), which gives comprehensive references.