This task is currently finished and closed, although changes can be proposed in the list of books by sending an email to urantiapedia@gmail.com.
This describes how to create a catalog of books that are supposed to be sources for The Urantia Book or have some relationship or parallel with The Urantia Book.
The Urantia Book itself offers two clear indications of the human material that has been used in its preparation: (UB 0:12.12 and UB 121:8.13). In addition to all this, it should be noted that The Urantia Book often quotes, either verbatim or implicitly, books from the Bible, including extra-canonical books, and others.
For some time now, several prominent readers have been doing work compiling these parallels. Reader Duane L. Faw has published a lengthy volume entitled Paramony in which he details some 60,000 parallels between The Urantia Book and The Bible. Another prominent reader, Matthew Block, has been developing a parallel-finding project for years with non-Biblical books written up to the time of The Urantia Book’s conception, having identified over a hundred books as potential sources for the authors.
This assignment will attempt to create a list of all non-Biblical books that have been detected as having parallels to The Urantia Book. An invaluable source for obtaining such a list is to go to Matthew Block’s old website.
The provisional list of books can be found here:
https://github.com/JanHerca/urantiapedia/blob/master/input/txt/books-en/Source_books.tsv
For any modification to this file on GitHub, the instructions provided for Administrators, Editors-in-Chief, or Assistant Editors users should be followed.
The content of this file is very simple:
<group>; the rest are empty.FAILED if a digital edition could not be located despite having tried, or empty if a digital edition has not been attempted yet; OK (if a digital copy is available) or empty (otherwise); path in Urantiapedia if it is already uploaded.It is highly recommended to edit the TSV files with Visual Studio Code adding the extension Rainbow CSV, which allows coloring the data and many more things.
With this file, the index of the Urantiapedia Library and the indexes of each shelf have been manually created (using replaces). The result can be seen in the Index of all book groups. This page is also accessible on this website, from the side menu on the left, option OTHER BOOKS \ Index. At the moment this page is only available in English, Spanish and French.