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Jonas provides the clearest and shortest understanding of gnosticism that I've ever read. It is so well done that you could read only the first two chapters and still have an immensely better appreciation for the contents of and rationale for gnoticism, in its pagan and Christian contexts. The first three chapters provide the historical context and survey of the contents for gnostic writings. The rest of the book provides a more in-depth look at the various systems of gnostic thought, as well as specific writers, and specific questions. Jonas concludes by noting that the beginning and end gnosticism's paradox n is the unknown God himself who is unknowable on principle because the other is totally unknown and is other to everything that is know, and yet is somehow the object of a knowledge and asks to be know. The knowledge of him itself is the knowledge of his unknowability; the predication upon him is thus known by negation and is a negative theology. He is truly an alien god.