Open-Access Side Bar & Moses in Gnostic Literature

 I have created a sidebar of open-access peer-reviewed work I have published since I was last active on this blog.  The first is a side-quest from my second book.  This article is "From Ignorant to Inspired: Moses in Gnostic Literature," Gnosis 6 (2021): 1-30.  

Here is the abstract 

One expects that ancient Gnostic sources would be hostile towards Moses as the igno-
rant prophet of the deficient demiurge. While some ancient Gnostic sources uphold
this perspective, others indicate greater ambivalence, as they both rely upon and resist
Moses’s authority. Other sources cite Moses positively and present him as a prophet
of true, spiritual realities, even to the point of portraying Moses as a proto-Gnostic.
This variety of attitudes, moreover, follows exegetical patterns stemming from New
Testament writings, especially Matthew, and social patterns, providing an index to how
Gnostics viewed themselves vis-à-vis other Christians and other Christian Gnostics.