| This a very convenient allegory for the evolution from gnosticism to orthodoxy and the ensuing death of esoteric gnostic traditions. |
| There is some interest in hellenistic Judaism, evidenced by the offering of a certain number of courses on Philo and gnosticism. |
| The content of this Midrash may be characterized as a form of gnosticism that successfully tries to escape any ontological dualism. |
| Research on new sources such as those from Nag Hammadi has also called into question several conventional generalizations about gnosticism. |
| A number of historians, notably Sir Steven Runciman, have seen links between gnosticism, the Albigensian beliefs and the Templars. |
| All this literature is, moreover, simply a « judaised » version of a late and decadent gnosticism. |
