Not Just Bibles
A Guide to Christian Resources on the Internet

3. Anonymous FTP Sites

ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

aFTP: bible.acu.edu

Dirs: Missions (Info on Receptivity, bios, bibliographies, book reviews, Jnl of Applied Missiology, statistics, etc)
Africa (ethnographic outlines, ASA addresses and serials)
Cell-Church (discussion group logs and archives)
Christian Communications Toolkit (discussion group archives)
Stone-Campbell (discussion group logs and archives)

Note: Also accessible via gopher to bible.acu.edu and via web at http://bible.acu.edu. ACU's home page on the web is at http://www.acu.edu/

aftp: ftp.bibleware.com/

Dir : /pub/bibleware/
Overview: Readme file (Discusses scope of archive, offers CDROM version) Files are comprised of MSDOS and Windows programs, and archived text files.

Cont: Contents files named 00_FILES.TXT located in each subdirectory
Dir : bibgames/ (Bible Games, 49 files)

Dir : bibmisc/ (Miscellaneous, 30 files)

bibref/ (Bible Reference Works 22 files)

ecf/ (The Early Church Fathers)
wesley/ (Wesley Sermons)
whansen/ (Sermons by Will Hanson)

bibstudy/ (Bible Study, 39 files, 2 subdirectories)

bibtrans/ (Bible Translations, 9 files)

aftp: kuyper.cs.pitt.edu

Dir : ebooks (Extensive collection of works by Augustine, Calvin, Chesterton, Edwards, À Kempis, Law, Spurgeon, Thornton and Newman among others. RTF, Mac, html and ascii formats)
Contents (ebooks): 00ABSTRACTS or via WWW at http://ccel.wheaton.edu/.

Dir : music/classical/ (Handel, Mozart; midi & mov sound files)

Dir : music/hymn_texts/ (Charles Wesley), and

Dir : music/john_wesley/ (John Wesley)

Dir : music/hymns/ (Sound files, incl. Be Thou My Vision, City on a Hill, Jesus Shall Reign, Lobe den Herren, The Heavens)

Dir : music/scheer/ (postscript praise songs by Greg Scheer)

aFTP: pharos.bu.edu

Cont: CN/COPT-NET.contents

Dirs: CN/articles (position papers and historical bios)
CN/lessons (Biblical and topical lessons)
CN/newsletter (CoptNet newsletters)
CN/pictures (GIF/JPEG images of Christian art/artifacts)
CN/prayers (creeds and prayers for special occasions)
CN/synexarion (bios of Bishoy, Mark, Paul of Tamooh, John Crysostom)
CN/texts (Apocalipse, Anthansia Creed and more)

Note: Also accessible via web at: http://cs.bu.edu/Faculty/best/pub/cn/Home.html

aFTP: ftp.funet.fi

Cont: Read files 00Index, and "readme" suffix throughout directory structure. "NJB Notes" below.

Dirs: pub/doc/religion/christian (subdirectories listed below)

Prgm:Bible/amiga - (VerseWise Amiga v1.2 and finnish software)
Bible/mac - (Online Bible, v.2.0, 8 modules),
Bible/mac/olb.p (and OLB, v.2.05 upgrade installer)
Bible/msdos - (Finnish Bible, Hebrew tools, Online Bible v.6.11, 24 modules), numerous other zipped texts and misc. programs.)
Bible/unix - (Bible Retrieval System v1.4)

Text: Bible/texts - (KJV, Darby, Weymouth, Webster, Youngs, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog (Philippine), Turkish)
NJB - (mirror of the NJB Library)
texts/texts/english - Matthew Henry's Commentary, Robertson's Word Pictures NT, other text files)

Note: For more info see funet.olbmac.txt, funet.olbdos.txt and funet.survey.txt. at iclnet93.iclnet.org (pub/resources/text/site-surveys).
Also accessiable via web at http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/religion/christian/

aFTP: mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Dirs: pub/etext/etext92 (also etext93, etext94)

Cont: pub/etext/INDEX100.GUT, INDEX200.GUT

Text: bible10.txt, bible10.zip (KJV); plgrm10.txt, plgrm10.zip, Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan); apoc9.txt, apoc9.zip (Deutercanonical Books/Apocrapha); child10.txt, child 10.zip, A Child's Garden of Verses (Stevenson)

Note: Also mirrored at -- etext.archive.umich.edu; nctuccca.edu.tw, /documents/electronic-texts/Gutenberg; nptn.org, /pub/e.texts/gutenberg; quake.think.com, /pub/etext91, etc..

Mail: almanac@oes.orst.edu (send gutenberg catalog).

aFTP: iclnet93.iclnet.org

Dir: pub/facdialogue (ICLnet's Faculty Dialogue Journal)

Dir: pub/resources

Note: Detailed contents file available in text format 00contents.njb.txt and icl-read.html, and icl-soft.html, a hypertext version of text files and software files at the archive.

Text: This guide in ascii and html format (christian-resources); Pointing the Way, hypertext (html) guide to Christian Literature; (christian-books.html). Domain Directory of Christian organizations (christian-directory.txt) Hypertext doc with pointers to early-church related documents (christian-history.html) OPACs at Christian Colleges

Dir : /pub/resources/text includes a number of subdirectories including files for: announcements (/announce); Aspects by David Lampel; Christian Research Institute's Journal and Newsletters (/cri); Copeland's Executable Outline Series (/exeout); a Christian history directory including Augustine's Confessions and Enchiridion (/history); Creation Research Society archive (/crs); CFD E-Connection with David Hodel; Institute Practical Bible-education, and IPB-E's Electronic Public Library (/ipb-e); Our Daily Bread with "contents" pages for title and verse (/Our.Daily.Bread); Hedley Palmer; The Prayer List (/prayer.list); ProLife News (/ProLife.News); Leonard Ravenhill (/ravenhill); United Reformed News Service releases (/reformed); Taize Community's documents, including Johannine Hour in English and Spanish (/taize); David Wilkerson's publications, including Times Square Church Pulpit Series. (/Times.Square.Church); and Project Wittenberg documents by Martin Luther and on the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (/wittenberg).

Dir: /pub/resources/software contains the most recent Bible Software FAQ.

Program files: at ICLnet are located in a number of directories, the primary structure listed below:

Dir: /pub/resources/software/mac includes Macintosh software as noted: Bible Promises Stack (/Bible.Promises.Stack); CRI's Text Database (/critext); Morning Star Magazine (/Morning.Star); and Online Bible, ver. 2.04 (/online.bible).

Dir: /pub/resources/software/msdos contains subdirectories for the following: CRI's Text Database (/critext); Copeland's Executable Outlines Series (/exeout); Morning Star Magazine (/Morning.Star); and TREN Database (/TREN) by the Theological Research Exchange Network.

aFTP: ftp.std.com

Dirs: obi/Canticles (canticles including brief history of liturgical use, initial source in Bible, etc)
obi/Ethnologue (B.Grimes Ethnologue, w/country stats, 5/88)
obi/John.Henry.Newman (various Newman works)
obi/Martin.Luther.King: (free.at.last)
obi/OTA: (Oxford Text Archive, mirror of black.ox.ac.uk)
obi/Religion/Bible.Retrieval.System (unix search program)
obi/Religion/KingJamesBible (KJV text)
obi/Religion/Vulgate (Latin Vulgate)
obi/Religion/Coptic (Coptic Lectionary)
obi/Religion (includes Book of Common Prayer)

Note: Also available via gopher at world.std.com (1/obi/book)

aFTP: members.aol.com

Dir: (khamel/olbmac/)

Cont: (/khamel/olbmac/olbinfo.txt) (includes info on features, availability, order info, content, media types and packages).

Prgm: fkey.hqx (utility), kjvht.hqx (King James Version NT), olb253.hqx (main program file, v. 2.53)

aFTP: ftp.std.com

dir: (obi/Religion/Online.Bible/)

Cont: (obi/Religion/Online.Bible/00_OLB_Index)

Instructions: (obi/Religion/Online.Bible/00_OLB_Readme)

Prgm: (obi/Religion/Online.Bible/OnlineBible2.52.image.sit) The application, installer, etc.

Bibles Modules: (obi/Religion/Online.Bible/Bibles/[language]/)

• DUTCH: (/Dutch/) Lei_1_1.image.sit, etc. - Leidse Vertaling, 1912; Lut_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Lutherse Vertaling, 1933; SV_1_1.image.sit, etc. - Staten Vertaling, 1750
  English: (/English/) ASV_1_2.image.sit, etc. - American Standard, 1912; BBE_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Bible in Basic English, 1965; Dby_1_2, etc. - JN Darby Bible, 1890; KJV_1_2.image.sit, etc. - The Authorized Version, 1769; RSV_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Revised Standard Version, 1973; Wey.image.sit - New Testament in Modern Speech, 1912; YLT_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Young's Literal Translation, 1898

  FRENCH: (/French/) Creole_1_1.image.sit, etc. - Haitian Creole; Dby_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Darby, 1971; Lexique_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Hebrew Lexicon; Lsg-Dby_1_3.image.sit,etc. - Louis Segund with Strong's Numbering; Lsg_1_2.image.sit.etc. - Louis Segund with Strong's Numbering, 1910; PNT.image.sit - People's New Testament Commentaries, 1899; Themes_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Topics in French

  GERMAN: (/German/) Elb_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Elberfelder, 1905; Lut_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Luther, 1912

  Italian (/Italian/) LND_1_2.image.sit, etc. - La Nouva Diodati, 1991

  ..Russian (/Russian/) RST_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Russian Synodal Text, 1917

  SPANISH: (/Spanish/) RV_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Reina-Valera, 1909

  ORIGINAL (/Original/) BHS-BHM_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Biblia Hebracia Stuttgartensia; N26.image.sit - Nestle 26/UBS, 3rd ed. Greek New Testament; TR_Byz_WH.image.sit - Stephens 1550 Testus Receptus, Scrivner 1894 Textus Receptus, Byzantine/ Majority Greek Textform, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, 1881

Other Modules (/obi/Religion/Online.Bible/Other_Modules/): Apocrapha.image.sit - including the Oxford edition and 1947 Revised Standard Edition; Easton_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897; Geneva_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Geneva Bible Notes, 1599; Lexicons_1_2_image.sit, etc. - Greek based on Thayer and Smith Bible Dictionary of the New Testament, Hebrew is Brown, Driver, Briggs Gesenius Lexicon keyed to the Theological Word Book of the Old Testament; M_and_E.image.sit - Spurgeon's Morning and Evening; MHCC_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary; Naves_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Naves Topical Bible; PNT.image.sit - The People's New Testament; RWP_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament; Smith_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Smith's Bible Dictionary; TCR_1_2.image.sit, etc. - Thompson Chain References, 1917, Torrey's Topical Textbook; TFG.image.sit - The Fourfold Gospel, 1905; TSK_1_3.image.sit, etc. - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; Wesley_1_3.image.sit, etc. - John Wesley's Notes on the Old and New Testaments, 1767.

Thanks: ICLnet wishes to thank Ray Kirk for ferreting out the sites for current Online Bible versions.

aFTP: panda1.uottawa.ca (pub/religion)

Cont: pub/religion/ftp-index.txt

Prgm: doors1 (hypertext directory of online religious scholars)

Text: topical biblios, book notes reviewing, eg. Billy Graham biography, variations in American evangelism, scholarly texts, software/hardware reviews, directories of electronic Bibles, and Septuagint study projects.

aFTP: oak.oakland.edu (primary mirror site) or
wuarchive.wustl.edu (systems/ibmpc/msdos)
ftp.uu.net (systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel20)
archie.au (micros/pc/oak) - Australia
src.doc.ic.ac.uk (pub/packages/simtel20) - England
ftp.funet.fi (pub/msdos/SimTel-mirror) - Finland
ftp.uni-paderborn.de (msdos) - Germany

Dir : pub/msdos/bible (at oak.oakland.edu)

Cont: pub/msdos/bible/00-index.txt

Prgm: God's Word for Windows v.1.2, Online Bible v.6.0, Executable Outline Series (Copeland Aug.'94), Genesis and Revelation Study Aids, Chinese Union Version database (Big 5 environment), Windows Bible Search v.1.5 (1/94), kjv2ng (Converts KJV to NG format, 7/94), Bible quiz, memory aids.

Text: KJV (2 sets)

Dir : pub/msdos/hebrew (at oak.oakland.edu)

Cont: pub/msdos/hebrew/00-index.txt

Prgm: Mac-DOS file translator w/Hebrew support, Hebrew language tutor

aFTP: ftp://ftp.coast.net

Dir: (/SimTel/win3/bible/)

Cont: /00_index.txt

Files: New Testament Greek Vocabulary Memorization Tool a free Windows program developed by Pastor Darren Twa for students of NT Greek. Based upon Bruce Metzger's "Lexical Aids for Students of NT Greek"

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith; The King James Dictionary; Morning and Evening by Spurgeon; MicroLIGHT Chinese English Bible for Windows; Windows in Time Bible Timeline.

aFTP: ftp.spss.com (pub/bible)

Cont: pub/bible/INDEX

Prgm: Terwilleger's graphical study aids;

Text: ASCII versions of AV (zip and tar.Z), Darby, Greek NT, Latin Vulgate, Webster, Weymouth NT, Youngs; Easton's Bible Dictionary Matthew Henry's Commentary, Nave's Topical Bible, Robertson's Word Pictures, Spurgeon's Morning & Evening; background documents for Bible-Study list, apologetics.

Note: Some files also available via mail server and via web at http://www.spss.com/bible.html/

aFTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu(info-mac/info/nms)
Cont: info-mac/help/all-files.txt; info-mac/nms/00nms-abstracts.txt

Prgm: Bible Promise Stack (3.1), Christmas Carol Stacks, History of Islam (1/93), Scripture Memory Stack (1.0), Chesterton's Orthodoxy (1993 Plantinga ed.). Most require HyperCard 2.x)

Note: Also available via gopher at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Mirrored by aFTP at mrcnext/cso.uiuc.edu (pub/info-mac/); ftp.ucs.ubc.ca (/pub/mac/info-mac/); and wuarchive.wustl.edu (systems/mac/info-mac/)

aFTP: sunsite.unc.edu (pub/academic/religious_studies/bible.old)

Cnts: README, README.bible, README.bible.NOTE.

Prgm: Online Bible ver. 6.11 (4/94) includes program module and 26 support modules.

Note: Version 6.11 also available via gopher at sunsite.unc.edu (1/.pub/academic/religious_studies/bible.old)

Survey Note: For more detailed info, see sunsite-unc.olbdos.txt iclnet93.iclnet.org (pub/resources/text/site-surveys).

[revised 3/97] aFTP: apologetics (Apolog. resources w/biblio)
creeds (Creeds, Statements, Catechisms, and Confessions)
liberty (Thinking from figures who have been crucial in influencing liberty.)

aFTP: wiretap.spies.com

Dirs: Library/Religion/Bible (Bibles in ASCII: KJV English, German Elberfelder Ubersetzung, Swahili NT, Swedish)
Library/Religion/Presby (Westminster Confession of Faith)
Library/Religion/Anglican (Anglican tracts, Book of Common Prayer)
Library/Classic (Works by Augustine, Alcott, Bunyan, Law, MacDonald, Dickens, Spurgeon, Stevenson, A.D. White, etc.)

Note: Also available via gopher at wiretap.spies.com More info available at iclnet93.iclnet.org (pub/resources/text/site-surveys/wiretap-spies.survey.txt)

10. Gopher Servers

CHRISTIAN COLLEGES

Desc: Most of the following have Faculty, staff and student directories; telnet gateway to libraries and some local information.

Gopher to:
acuun1.acu.edu - Abilene Christian Univ. (TX)
gopher.bethel.edu - Bethel College (MN)
gopher.bridgewater.edu - Bridgewater College (VA)
gopher.calvin.edu - Calvin College (MI)
cedarville.edu - Cedarville College (OH)
gopher.cord.edu - Concordia College (MN)
crf.cuis.edu - Concordia University (IL)
cc.dordt.edu - Dordt College (IA)
gopher.goshen.edu - Goshen College (IN)
gopher.gac.edu - Gustavus Adolphus College (MN)
gopher.mc.edu - Mississippi College (MS)
gopher.olivet.edu - Olivet Nazarene College (IL)
presby.edu - Presbyterian College (SC)
beacon.regent.edu - Regent University (VA)
gopher.spu.edu - Seattle Pacific Univ. (WA)
gopher.wheaton.edu - Wheaton College (IL)

Desc: The following are among the best sites accessible via gopher for up-to-date info on new resources in this subject area.

Gopher to:
riceinfo.rice.edu (1/Subject/RelPhil)
honor.uc.wlu.edu 1020 (Menu: Subject/Religion)
marvel.loc.gov (1/global/phil)
alpha.epas.utoronto.ca (1/cch/disciplines/religious_studies)

Gopher to: bible.acu.edu

Desc: Access to Cell-Church and UGANDANET Archives and other ftp archives related to Missions. Pointers to gophers and ftp sites with info relevant to missions and ministries. THIS GUIDE and the Domain Directory for Christian Organizations.

Note: See aFTP site description above.

Gopher to: auvm.american.edu (1/Cath0)

Desc: Charter/Log files of Free Catholic List, RCC documents, writings of Church Fathers, Franciscan files and Opus Dei files.

Gopher to: gopher.bethany.org

Desc: An organization providing pro-life, pro-family services. Bethany offers professional help for women with unplanned pregnancies and adoptive couples seeking to provide loving Christian homes for children.

Note: Also accessible via WWW at http://www.bethany.org

Gopher to: ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Dir : CCAT Archives
Religious/Biblical: morphology of Greek New Testament, Pentateuch; Greek and Hebrew Alignment; KJV, RSV, and Vulgate.
Religious/Church Writers Comprehensive collection of early church documents

Dir: Course Mat'ls: Lecture notes and study aids for courses in classics (Augustine) and religious studies
CCAT Software Archives; Various PC/MAC programs.

Note: Also accessible via WWW at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Gopher to: una.hh.lib.umich.edu (1/inetdirsstacks)

Dec: Great collection of guides usually updated periodically. Guides of interest include:

Christian Resources; G. Bogart, J. Brubaker; v1.30 Oct'94

Religion; M. Fraser; June'94

Religious Studies; J. Gresham; June'94

Religious Studies; P. Fehrmann; v8; Mar'94

Religious Studies; vol. 1; M. Strangelove; Feb'93

Religious Studies; vol. 3; M. Strangelove; Nov'92

Gopher to: gopher.cord.edu (1/The Church)

Desc: Luther Vespers Sermons at Concordia (A collection of over 75 sermons)

Gopher to: crf.cuis.edu

Desc: Concordia University System: Concordia Lutheran Universities, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, includes Academic Calendars, descriptions, online library catalogs, bookstores, and course schedules.

Dir : Concordia Univ. System/Concordia Theological Seminary/Library
WITTENBERG, The Lutheran History Discussion List
Selected Works of Martin Luther including: Passages From the Writings, Hymns, Prayers, Prefaces From Luther's German Bible Version, 95 Theses, Luther's Small Catechism, Preface to Luther's Latin Writings
Documents of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

Gopher to: gopher.fh.org

Dir: GHN.dir (Congressional Hunger Center)
Dir: OTHER.dir (Other Gopher Links on International Relief and Development
Dir: WCN.dir (World Crisis Network: Welcome, vision, Rwanda and Africa programs, Overseas Postings)

Gopher to: cwis.ucs.mun.ca

Dir : MUN Campus Info/Academic Departments/Religious Studies

Desc: Extensive text archives related to Methodism and various early Pentecostal texts.

Gopher to: gopher.mc.edu (Christian Internet Resources)

Desc: Searchable catalog of Christian Music (by author and title), Baptist press releases, this guide, list of Christian college gophers.

Note: Music database search requires gopher+ client.

Gopher to: gopher.wheaton.edu (1/Church)

Desc: Good collection of Christian resources, well maintained. Includes archives section including catalogue of Graham archives, an online collection of oral history transcripts, several scholarly netters (see section 3 of this guide), and pointers to many gopher resources noted in this guide.

Gopher to: wiretap.spies.com

Desc: See NJB info for FTP site.

Gopher to: delphi.dur.ac.uk (1/Academic/P-T/Theology)

Dirs: Computing (Lectures/Text on-line)
Software for Theologians (Texts on disk, hebrew/greek WP software, archives)
Discussion Groups for Theologians (Comprehensive listing of nearly all discussion groups broadly relevant to religious studies. Updated regularly.

Gopher to: vuinfo.vanderbilt.edu

Desc: Various bibliographies including, Church History and Christian Thought, Biblical Exegesis, Hebrew Bible, Religious Ethics, Theology: Selected Journals, Theology: Selected References