The Jesus of the Cults

An interesting article here by Philip Jenkins, titled "The Jesus of the Cults". It has some nice details about the polularization of Gnosticism in the nineteenth century, via Theosophy, plus the development of modern forged gospels, some of which I use in my Lost Sayings of Jesus, which incidentally is now in stock at Amazon.

Postscript:-

I ought to mention that the author is rather prejudiced against the use of non-canonical material in the study of the historical Jesus, and this is the thrust of the article. He is explicitly connecting the interest in ancient Gnostic texts with the development of modern forged gospels, in order to discredit the historical usefulness of Gnostic texts. But it still contains a lot of interesting material.