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Sacred Stories from the British Library

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Baby Isa speaks (Islam) Hanukkah (Judaism) Khalsa (Sikhism) The elephant and the blind men (Buddhism) David and Goliath (Christianity & Judaism) The monkey king and the mangoes (Buddhism) The Prophet Muhammed and the spider (Islam) Nachiketa and Yama (Hinduism) Rama and Sita (Hinduism) Abraham and Isaac (Judaism) Malik Bhago and Lalo (Sikhism) The Lost Son (Christianity)

Sacred Texts from the British Library

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These were Flash videos. Since Flash is now obsolete, these are no longer available at the original website . Before they were discontinued, I made screencasts for the videos, using Studio in Canvas. Below are links to these Studio videos. An academic, an educator, a faith leader, a young person and an atheist share their thoughts on the sacred texts of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There are five themes, each with three questions that the different kinds of people from the three Abrahamic religions address, each in their own way. I recorded the videos based on the question, allowing each person who addresses the question to speak (it thus being a sort of "interfaith dialogue"). This way you (the viewer) can compare and contrast what these people have to say in response to each question.  I suggest that, before you view the videos, you consider how you might answer the question. Then, after you listen to how others in the video have responded