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Well, there are many interesting things in antique literature in general. This particular text is, I agree, amazing, but it's a piece of religious writing.
Centuries I-IV AD were a more pluralistic time for the Mediterranean.
For me personally reading Lucian of Samosata was such a change.
Lucian saw a ship of men flying up to the moon as beyond possibility.
This tradition thought that mankind would literally create God, and saw some of the specifics of this with uncanny foresight to what's playing out in the present day.
I can think of few futurists more prescient than whoever was behind Thomas and details in the surrounding tradition.