What is the best explanation for why the Resurrection of Jesus looks like a legend evolving?

You are equivocating here between dates of particular documents and the beliefs in the early Church.

You are ignoring the scholarly consensus that the 1 Cor 15:3-7 (quoted by @Chad_the_Layman ) creed dates to merely within years of the death of Jesus.

You are ignoring the scholarly consensus that the dominant sources of the final New Testament texts had to be pre-70 AD.

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