I think if I end up arguing that the Transfiguration was the original conclusion to the gospel and the starting point to the 'year of favor' announced in the synagogue in Galilee I will have to develop arguments from the following sources:
HM Teeple, The Mosaic Eschatological Prophet (1957), p. 85. argues that the transfiguration was originally an account of the enthronement of Jesus as the Christ, but places it a week after his resurrection.
See Riesenfeld, Jesus transfigure, pp. 276f. 58 shows how the traditions of enthronement associated with Tabernacles account for the imagery of the Transfiguration and thus events six days previously should be read in the context of the Day of Atonement.
Theodore Weeden, Traditions in Conflict, Fortress Press
C. E. Carlston ("Transfiguration and Resurrection," JBL 80 [ 1961] 235) states: "In short, the. 'misplaced resurrection account' can be disproved as the
Joel Marcus shows the account of the Transfiguration is based on the enthronement of Moses on Sinai
RH Stein, "Is the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-8) a Misplaced Resurrection Account?"
Stephan Huller has had a life long interest in religion and spirituality 
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."