I want to flush out our religion section in Education, so I'd like to do a Torah app portably. I haven't found a solid one, but if anyone else has a suggestion that would be great.
Alternatively, we could bundle a Torah in PDF with a modded version of Sumatra PDF which could also serve the purpose. The launcher could do language switching as well.
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I've been using the bible one for a long time, and I use my hard copy or web versions when I am researching in the torah/qur'an.
I hope someone can help you with it.
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This site has both pdf and text versions of the Jewish Publication Society edition of 1917 which is in the public domain. I cannot vouch for its detail accuracy.
http://www.archive.org/details/holyscripturesac028077mbp
Here is the Google Print version which appears to be a scanned copy of the 1917 text. The pages I checked verify to my father's copy of the book.
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC05351534&id=d0YaAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PR...
And one more that I've had a link to for many years:
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm
You can dowload the entire set of books in one zip.
Considering that Hinduism and Buddhism are followed by about 1.5 billion people, should we also be looking into the Buddhavacana, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Mahabharata?
I'd also love to see the I Ching and the Tao De Ching.
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He's already put out a request for the quran. I'm not a muslim so I'm sure I spelt it wrong.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
Perhaps I should have used the more common term of Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share a common origin.
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We're gonna expand to all of them. We're just starting with the ones that are more commonly being studied online. Tao Te Ching is on the list, though which translation to use will be up in the air. I have Ursula K. Le Guin's version myself (in print form), but we can't use that since it is copyrighted still. I Ching is on the list. As is Bhagavad Gita (where we must also face the translation question: Swami Swarupananda, Swami Sivananda, Swami Prabhavananda, etc) as well as other Hindu texts. But we'll address these in separate threads after we get these done. The ultimate goal is to make available every major text from every major religion in an easy-to-use portable format.
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I know prapper's developing a portable Calibre e-book library manager and e-book reader. Wouldn't that be a more useful tool than Sumatra, since it can handle a wide variety of e-book formats?
Also, we could offer Project Gutenberg versions of these books. They have the Legge translation of Tao Te Ching, as well as a Chinese version. They have the Mahabharata and a few versions of the Qur'an.
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