Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0613. Monday, 22 Mar 1993. Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 13:50:17 EST From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: EMG: Sacred and Primary Electronic Texts UPDATE The following is from The Electric Mystic's Guide, Volume One. Please let me know if there are any corrections or omissions. - Michael Strangelove (441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca) __________________________________________________________________ Sacred and Primary Electronic Texts The following is a listing of all electronic, network-accessible sacred texts and primary texts of scholarly (or religious) interest that may be freely retrieved via FTP or LISTSERV. The Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Koran (also spelled Quran) are available at many sites and in a variety of formats, such as ASCII, zipped (.zip), compressed (.Z) and archived (.arc). The following section indicates where low ASCII versions of these sacred texts may be found on selected sites. For related programs see the section Software Programs for Religious Studies (page 93). This section also provides information on networked electronic versions of primary texts that are of use to the academic community. Note that the CCAT Gopher (ccat.sas.upenn.edu) is quickly developing into a major index and database of Religious Studies primary and secondary texts. This Gopher should be consulted for current information. The Bible (King James Version) Available as the files bible10.zip and bible10.txt from the Project Gutenberg archives via FTP to mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.201.12) in the /extext/etext92/ directory. Note that the available KJV bibles on the Net do not include the apocrypha. Nicene Creed. Various versions, English text (1991). Available from ORTHODOX, listserv@indycms as CREED ENGLISH1 and CREED ENGLISH2. The Book of Mormon Available as the files mormon13.txt and mormon13.zip from the Project Gutenberg archives via FTP to mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.201.12) in the /extext/etext91/ directory. Other Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) Materials: Doctrine and Covenants. Available as the file d-and-c.zip via FTP from oak.oakland.edu in the /pub/msdos/mormon/ directory. Pearl of Great Price. Available as pofgp.zip via FTP from oak.oakland.edu in the /pub/msdos/mormon/ directory. The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians (Recensions) English versions (includes short and long versions). Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar. The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp (Recensions) English versions (Cureton and Lightfoot-Harmer). Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar. The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans (Recensions) English versions (Cureton, TLG Greek edited by P. T. Camelot,, Lightfoot-Harmer edition; TLG Greek edited by F. X. Funk and F. Diekamp). Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar. John Trevisa Corpus Transcriptions of works (translations from Latin) of John Trevisa (Defensio Curatorum, De Regimine Principum, Polychronicon, The Gospel of Nicodemus) are available via FTP to blackbox.hacc.washington.edu in the /pub/text/trevisa/ directory as the files: gospel.arc The Gospel of Nicodemus defensio.arc Defensio Curatorum regimine.arc De Regimine Principum polychro.arc Polychronicon Work on these texts is in progress, thus there are no notes at this point regarding the thoroughness of proofreading and so forth. See the README and fowler.his files for complete details on the state of these texts. The Kama Sutra The text of the Love Teachings of Kama Sutra, translated by Indra Sinha, is available as the file kama-sutra.Z from the Almanac archives via FTP to 128.193.124.2 (oes.orst.edu) in the /pub/almanac/etext/ directory. The Koran (Quran) M.H. Shakir's translation of the Koran is available as 114 individual ASCII text chapters via FTP to quake.think.com (192.31.181.1) in the /pub/etext/koran/ directory (note that when there are many files to be retrieved via FTP, use the command mget *.* to retrieve all files in the current directory. Ensure that you have sufficient disk space available on your e-mail account before using the command mget to retrieve a large amount of data.) It is also available via FTP to princeton.edu -- snake.mcs.kent.edu -- mcs.kent.edu -- hydra.unm.edu. The Koran and a related dictionary is also available as koran-dict.Z and koran.Z via FTP to oes.orst.edu (128.193.124.2) in the /pub/almanac/etext/ directory. This version contains a few typographical errors which are delineated in the file on-line-quran available via FTP to cs.dal.ca (129.173.4.5) in the /pub/comp.archives/soc.religion.islam/ directory. Note that retrieving the Quran in 114 separate files is only one step in creating one's own electronic Quran for searching. Apart from the titles of each file, there are no headings (thus no real identifications) for the individual surahs (chapters). So one must intersperse the file headers with the file contents to recreate a useful consecutive text. A short file of various quotes from the Koran is also available via LISTSERV from listserv@asuacad.bitnet or listserv@asuacad as PAKISTAN AL_QURAN. Other Islamic Studies Materials: American Arab Scientific Society (AMASS) Software Library at cs.bu.edu (128.197.2.1) in the /amass/ directory. USENET Newsgroup soc.religion.islam Archive at cs.dal.ca (129.173.4.5) in the /pub/comp.archives/soc.religion.islam/ directory. See the section Islamic Studies (page 70) for more details and resources. Paraleipomena Jeremiou (Recensions) English translation by R. A. Kraft and A. E. Purintun, (SBL Texts and Translations 1, Pseudepigrapha Series 1, 1972) and English translation by W. Newby, with R. A. Kraft. Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar. Sanskrit Texts A collection of Sanskrit texts is available via FTP to ftp.bcc.ac.uk in the /pub/users/ucgadkw/indology/ directory. Available files are as follows: astadhyayi.zip Panini's Astadhyayi brhatsam.zip Varahamihira's Brhatsamhita buddhacarita.zip Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita iass.zip EGA/VGA fonts for CSX charset sanksaun.zip Sankara's Saundaryalahari The same files, but with characters encoded according to the International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) "Vienna Convention" or "Computer Sanskrit Extended (CSX)" character set will be found at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu in the /pub/indic/ directory. Available files there are as follows: bddhcrtm.zip Contains the TEI encoded text of the buddhacarita prepared by Peter Schreiner retranscribed in the CS/CSX encoding. brhatsam.zip Contains the transcription of Varhahamira's Brhatsamhita made available by Michio Yano and Mizue Sugita (based on the A.V. Tripathi Sarasvati Bhavan Granthamala edition) converted to Classical Sanskrit extended 8-bit encoding (CS/CSX). panini.zip Panini has the file sutrapat.csx, with the asthadhyayi in the Classical Sanskrit extended character set. saundary.zip Contains the Peter Schreiner transcription of Norman Brown's edition of Shankara's Saundarylahari (converted to CSX encoding). See the UPDATES document for complete information on these files. Note that they are still in the process of error correction. These files are also available (in the same form as on ftp.bcc.ac.uk) via LISTSERV, send the command INDEX INDOLOGY to listserv@liverpool.ac.uk for a complete list of available documents. Second Book of Ezra (Recensions) English versions. Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar. The Tanach The Hebrew text of the Tanach is available via FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in the /wuarchive/mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/msdos/foreign_lang/hebrew/ directory as three files: tanach1.zip The Torah tanach2.zip The Prophets tanach3.zip The Writings >From the same directory is also available these related files: heb-disp.zip An MSDOS utility program for displaying Hebrew letters on the monitor screen of a personal computer. reveal.zip An MSDOS utility program that counts occurrences of letters in the Tanach. The Two Ways (Barn. 18:1-21:9; Did. 1:1-6:2 Recensions) English versions. Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar. Urantial Texts There is over ten megabytes of texts in English and French available from the URANTIAL forum, concerned with the ideas presented in The URANTIA Book. For a complete list of these URANTIAL forum documents, retrieve the 00_INDEX.LST file via FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /pub/urantia/ directory. Searching for Word Patterns in Online Sacred Texts Keyword searches of selected sacred texts (and others) can be conducted online via the CCAT Gopher. Search results return the text section in which the keyword appears. These results can then be mailed to the user. To conduct searches, gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu and select CCAT Text Archives and Related Material from Elsewhere. You will be presented with the following menu: CCAT Text Archives and Related Material from Elsewhere 1. Greek & Hebrew ALIGNMENT: Search pattern, please? 2. VULGATE: Search pattern, please? 3. KJV BIBLE: Search pattern, please? 4. RSV BIBLE: Search pattern, please? 5. QURAN: Search pattern, please? 6. SHAKESPEARE: Search pattern, please? 7. MILTON: Search pattern, please? 8. BK OF MORMON: Search pattern, please? FYI -- Special Internet Connections A six page directory of special Internet archives and servers, written by Scott Yanoff, is available as the file inet.services.txt via FTP from csd4.csd.uwm.edu in the /pub/ directory. Searching for Online Sacred Texts with Archie The sacred texts listed above are available via FTP through many different hosts around the world. If the above locations are difficult to reach from your location you can find alternative locations by using an Archie server. Telnet to the nearest Archie server and login as archie. To conduct a search type prog keyword where keyword is the name of the desired text. Some appropriate keywords are bible, koran, quran, mormon, and tanach. If your site does not allow for Telnet sessions it is possible to search Archie by sending e-mail messages to the nearest server. Information on how to use Archie can be obtained by sending the command HELP as an e-mail message to archie@archie.mcgill.ca (or archie@any.node.below). Other helpful documents are What is Archie? (Richard Hintz, 1991), available via FTP as the file archie_guide.txt from the node hydra.uwo.ca in the directory /libsoft/ and the document Internet Archie Server Listing Service: A Reference Manual, (R.P.C. Rodgers, 1991), available via FTP as the file archieuser.gde from the node infolib.murdoch.edu.au in the /pub/soft/archie/ directory. There is also available Peter Deutsch's document, Archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet, which can be retrieved as the file whatis.archie via FTP from the node ftp.sura.net in the /pub/nic/archie/docs/ directory. For detailed user instructions, see also the file archie.man.txt in the same directory. Archie will provide user information if you type the command help. It is possible to have your Telnet session search results mailed to you by typing the command mail your@address which causes the output of the last command to be mailed to the specified address or comma-separated list of addresses (replace your@address with your e- mail address. All the various Internet addressing styles are understood. BITNET sites should use the convention user@sitename.bitnet). If you use the command set mailto your@address before conducting any searches with the prog command, then the output of any search will be mailed to you upon entering the command mail. This is very useful if you intend to conduct a number of searches in one session. Archie Locations World Wide: archie.unl.edu (129.93.1.14) University of Nebraska in Lincoln server archie.sura.net (128.167.254.179) USA server archie.ans.net (147.224.1.2) ANS archie server (USA) archie.rutgers.edu (128.6.18.15) Rutgers U., Piscataway, New Jersey server archie.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3) Canadian server, original Archie server archie.au (139.130.4.6) Australian server archie.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) European server in Finland archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.11.3) United Kingdom server archie.cs.huji.ac.il (132.65.6.15) Israel server archie.ncu.edu.tw (140.115.19.24) Far East server archie.wide.ad.jp (133.4.3.6) Japanese server archie.ncu.edu.tw (140.115.19.24) Taiwanese server Reading Texts Online The Bible, Koran and Book of Mormon can be read online via Telnet to the University of Maryland's Info Database. Telnet to info.umd.edu and login as info. Select Reading Room and then select Religion. It is possible to FTP the texts from this system but, due to the systems design, it is not altogether as easy as FTPing them from the above sites. The Koran, King James Version of the Bible and the Book of Mormon are also available for reading online from the Cleveland Free-Net. Telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or freenet-in-b.cwru.edu or freenet-in-c.cwru.edu and login as (2) Visitor, select (11) Library and then select (3) Electronic Bookshelf. These texts can also be read online via the CCAT Gopher at ccat.sas.upenn.edu. For More Information on Electronic Sacred Texts The following information files will help you locate electronic texts that are not available on the Net. Note that most of these texts are not free. Catalogue of Electronic Text Projects. (Georgetown Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown University, 1990). Available from HUMANIST, listserv@brownvm as PROJECTS ETEXTS. CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT) on CD-ROM Information File. (1991). Available from HUMANIST, listserv@brownvm as CLCLT CDROM and as CLCLT CETEDOC. Electronic Bibles and Biblical Studies Project Listing. (Georgetown Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown University, 1991). Available from CONTENTS, listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca as BIBLICAL E-TEXTS. Electronic Septuagint Studies Project Listing. (Georgetown Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown University, 1991). Available from CONTENTS, listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca or listserv@uottawa as LXX- JUD E-TEXTS. List of Texts and Software Available from the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT). (1988). Available from HUMANIST, listserv@brownvm as CCAT COLLECTN. A current listing is available via Gopher to ccat.sas.upenn.edu. ______________________________________________________________________ The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS is an electronic journal that archives and disseminates research and pedagogical material of relevance to Religious Studies. 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