This is the position maintained by Harold H. Oliver, “A Relational Reassessment of Myth,” Nexus 20 (1977), pp. 11–18; J. Keith Elliott, “The First Easter,” History Today 29 (1979), pp. 209ff.; Antonio R. Gualtieri, “The Resurrection of Jesus as Transformational Myth,” Encounter 43 (1982), pp. 177–183; Ronald H. Preston, raise “Understanding Resurrection Faith,” Modern Churchman 23 (1980), pp. 65–73. Cf. Jaques Guillet, “Les récits evangeliques de la resurrection,” Quatres Fleuves (Paris) 15–16 (1982), pp. 7–21.