Its Historicity Bultmann’s view that the transfiguration account “is an Easter-story projected backward into Jesus’ lifetime,”25 that is, a legendary resurrection appearance mistakenly displaced and put in the preresurrection material, continues to find support today. But it needs only to be said that G. A. Boobyer26 and C. H. Dodd27 have demonstrated that nothing about the transfiguration account resembles the later resurrection appearances. For example, all of the accounts of the resurrection