From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 01:00:57 MDT
On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 01:12 am, Brett Paatsch wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am currently in the middle of a lobby effort in support of embryonic
> stem
> cell research using surplus IVF embryos in Australia and I am
> considering
> how to best address the usual avalanche of extremist religious rhetoric
> that
> inevitably comes as part and parcel to this area.
>
> Can anyone out there assist by pointing me towards online editions of
> the
> Bible, the Koran, the Talmud(?) or whatever the Jewish tome is?
>
> I am hoping I may be able to do a keywords search for words such as
> embryo,
> foetus, "unborn child" etc just to see what the religious "authorities"
> have
> had to say or otherwise. It would be nice for me these tomes were in
> English.
>
I would suggest looking for the names or terms in Google with the word
"online", such as "Bible Online", "Koran Online" "Quran Online", etc.
If you can't find some of these online, I might be able to dig up a text
file version for you. The following are the different "sets" or
"canons" of scriptures that I can recall off the top of my head. Each
of these contains their own particular set of documents and are revered
by different groups.
Chinese
Buddhist
Hindu
Japanese
Assyria, Babylonian
Egyptian
Old Testament
- Torah, Moses
- former Prophets
- latter Prophets
- Writings, Psalms
Talmud
Midrash, Commentaries
Old Testament Apocrypha
Josephus
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
Coptic
Tanach
Dead Sea Scrolls
New Testament
- Gospels
- Acts
- Epistles
- Revelations, Apocalypse
New Testament Apocrypha
- Gospels
- Acts
- Epistles
- Revelations, Apocalypses
Hermetica
Gnostica, Nag Hammadi Library
Quran, Koran
Qabala, Cabala, Kabbalah
Midieval Grimoires
Rennaisance Grimoires
Golden Dawn
Thelema
Book of Mormon
Alchemy
Cathar
Church Fathers, Catholic Fathers
Liturgy
Mandaean
Manichaean
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