My theory construction postulating an inversion of valuation of eternalism from early to late antiquity goes back to maybe 2000 Gnosticism Yahoo Group debate with Coraxo.
The serpent (the altered-state eternalism revelation experience) is wisdom and also is disparaged.
Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity – Oddcast
at SHWEP Podcast and website:
Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast
host Earl Fontainelle
Burns’ 2020 book:
Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy
https://brill.com/display/title/57669
Episode 1:
https://shwep.net/oddcast/dillon-burns-on-providence-fate-and-dualism-in-antiquity/
Lots of show notes & bibliomania
Episode 2:
https://shwep.net/oddcast/dylan-burns-on-the-birth-of-free-will-in-late-antiquity/
The Egodeath theory 