The Gnostic Gospels sharply disconnect Jesus from the story of Israel, for a very good reason. For them, the Old Testament God is the inferior creator of this material world, from whose power the Gnostic is to be delivered by the enlightenment Jesus brings from the true supreme God, a God not known to the Hebrew Bible. Inevitably, the Jewishness of Jesus, which is integral to his portrayal in the four Gospels, disappears from the Gnostic Gospels.
