Give this brilliant Dr. Seuss-ized version of the Gnostic creation myth a read (it’s also funny if you are familiar with Gnosticism). Mark Goodacre — if you read this, this guy deserves an A for something!
Were the Ancient Gnostics Great Intellectuals?
Here’s one New Testament scholar (Larry Hurtado, recently retired, Univ. of Edinburgh) who laughs at the idea. I’d agree with him (and I like reading western esotericism). If you think they’re intellectual elites, you’ve been watching too much...
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hopefully the author can work that into his dissertation somewhere….