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|year=2002

|year=2002

|location=Downers Grove, IL

|location=Downers Grove, IL

|pages=245

|pages=245, 247

|chapter=12:Orthodoxy and Heresy

|chapter=12:Orthodoxy and Heresy

|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 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

}}</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 and the remains of two more, 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

|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'; O. Skarsaune also refers to them as 'numerous texts (52 tractates in all)'.|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==