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|isbn=978-0-8308-2844-9

|isbn=978-0-8308-2844-9

|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=2q6qTb-A7GwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Oskar+Skarsaune+In+the+shadow+of+the+temple&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6WuMUIihIJTN4QSbnoGIBQ&redir_esc=y

|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=2q6qTb-A7GwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Oskar+Skarsaune+In+the+shadow+of+the+temple&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6WuMUIihIJTN4QSbnoGIBQ&redir_esc=y

}}</ref> The actual findings are important evidence and confirmation about the existence of [[Gnostic]] sects previously known only from reports of [[church fathers]] ([[ecclesiastical]] writers) coming from early period of [[Christianity]]. The documents found sealed in a jar from a tomb consist in eleven complete books, most of them eventually acquired by the [[Coptic]] museum at [[Cairo]], where they are kept today. One manuscript, the important Jung Codex, was bought for the Jung Institute in [[Zürich]]. All documents are in Coptic, most of them are believed by scholars to be written in the third or fourth centuries, although dependent on Greek originals of an earlier date.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book

}}</ref> The actual findings are important evidence and confirmation about the existence of [[Gnostic]] sects previously known only from reports of their opponents, [[church fathers]] ([[ecclesiastical]] writers), coming from early period of [[Christianity]]. The documents, found sealed in a jar from a tomb, consist in eleven complete books, most of them eventually acquired by the [[Coptic]] museum at [[Cairo]], where they are kept today. One manuscript, the important Jung Codex, was bought for the Jung Institute in [[Zürich]]. All documents are in Coptic, most of them are believed by scholars to be written in the third or fourth centuries, although dependent on Greek originals of an earlier date.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book

|title=From Christ to Constantine

|title=From Christ to Constantine

|author=M.A.Smith

|author=M.A.Smith

|isbn=0-85110-570-X

|isbn=0-85110-570-X

|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=9coLOAAACAAJ&dq=0-85110-570-X&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1nKMUJWCPKPe4QS60oHAAQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA

|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=9coLOAAACAAJ&dq=0-85110-570-X&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1nKMUJWCPKPe4QS60oHAAQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA

}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Some sources state twelve books without refering to them as 'complete'.|group=note}}    

}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Some sources state twelve books without refering to them as 'complete'; O. Skarsaune also refers to them as 'numerous texts (52 tractates in all)'.|group=note}}

==Notes==

==Notes==