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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 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

}}</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 dialect, 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