Paul's letters aren't really debated by historical scholars. They exist.
Whether they are fiction or non-fiction sure, absolutely, but whether they existed and when they were written (at least the 7) aren't debated much.
So Paul, as one of many early Christians, was writing about Jesus 15 years after his alleged death and we have the evidence. Again, whether Jesus existed or not, and certainly whether he was divine or not, is debated but Paul talking about Jesus' resurrection ~50 AD is not.
Textcritic will come in and correct us, I'm sure, but again, I'm just disputing your argument that no one wrote of him until 60 years after his death.
Oral tradition is huge in any regard. Hawaii didn't even have written language by the time Cook landed. So expecting a bunch of poor uneducated early-Christians to be writing a bunch isn't really reasonable, we know they existed again (in that they were followers of this new branch of Judaism shooting out around 30AD).
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