How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?

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It is not commonly known but Greek "novels" were a definite genre beginning in the first century and, of course, we can't know what the antecedents were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_novel

The Greek novel as a genre began in the first century CE, and flourished in the first four centuries; it is thus a product of the Roman Empire. The exact relationship between the Greek novel and the Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius is debated, but both Roman writers are thought by most scholars to have been aware of and to some extent influenced by the Greek novels.

Although the plots of the surviving novels appear to be relatively conventional, based around the fulfilled heterosexual desire of a be