The 2000 year old thoughts of a desert culture was intelligent for its time but much of it is erased and changed. The intelligence of another culture across the ocean is much different although they did co coexist.
The Mayan was much more cosmologically based than the Jewish culture although the Spaniards later did a fairly complete job of burning all the Mayan books. Knowing what they were truly about is as hard as determining the thoughts of the most intelligent dinosaurs as they watched the setting sun.