You may get a kick out of reading up on Christian Gnosticism.
There's a new-age revival which is bunk, but the historical sources are actually very interesting. The Gnostics believed knowledge was the highest attainable good, and interpreted scripture widely as metaphor.
There are also some very early texts considered heretical, because they don't fit the canon, but have been dated to 2 AD.
There's a new-age revival which is bunk, but the historical sources are actually very interesting. The Gnostics believed knowledge was the highest attainable good, and interpreted scripture widely as metaphor.
There are also some very early texts considered heretical, because they don't fit the canon, but have been dated to 2 AD.
