If the Jesus-never-existed "theorists"are so sure,why not make history by publishing a consensus-changing tome?

After all, anyone who published the definitive article (appearing in one of the top peer-reviewed journals of history or religious studies) and unseated the long-standing conclusion of scholars at the world's top universities that the Jesus who founded the Christian religion lived in Palestine in the first century, they would be richly rewarded with an endowed chair at the academic institution of their choice and probably make the cover of Time Magazine as the most influential history scholar of all time. What would be the obstacle? (Obviously, the editorial boards of the major journals and the memberships of the various scholarly societies are well populated with atheists and agnostics who have no personal stake in defending the present view of Jesus Christ as someone who actually lived in the first century. So proof of Jesus' "non-existence" would certainly get plenty of open doors.)