Do the gnostic texts betray author's intent of fiction?

[earlydude]

Often we are pointed to elements/devices of the gospel text that makes us suspect a deliberately fictional origin (Groups of people speaking in unison, apt character names and so on)

My question is do the gnostic texts similarly display these kinds of signs? Can we say with any degree of certainty whether the authors are presenting what they consider to be literal history or whether they are simply knocking out another revelatory and edifying fan-fiction for the increasingly popular Jesus of Nazareth character?

[andrewcriddle]

Most of the Gnostic accounts of Jesus are accounts of Jesus' teaching, sometimes his teaching between his resurrection and ascension.
IMHO although this material is intended to be true to Jesus as the (gnostic) writer understood him, it is mostly not intended as an account of what Jesus said in his pre-resurrection ministry.

Andrew Criddle