Myths reflect their time, place, and race. The story of Jesus is set in a definite time frame of Roman and Jewish history. Myths defy topography as they do chronology. Almost every story in the life of Jesus is set in specific location. Myths are not completed at once.
All myths belong to the infancy, never to the age of any nation.
It is clear that the story of Jesus does not conform to any of the standard guidelines to the establishment of mythological legend. If the New Testament writers had created a character to be idolized by the Jews, Jesus absolutely would have been a different person altogether. He was not what Jews had hoped for or expected. He was not the dramatic, regal figure who would save their nation. His teaching went against all that the prominent religionists among them believed.