The texts are Traditions & Encounters, a global perspective of the past by Bentley and Ziegler, and History. Major Themes in Western Civilization by Scudder. The author of the second text was my professor and he wrote it to compliment the first text.
and to answer terrytnewzealand: The major differences are that for the most part the new testament is Christs lessons pruned to ommit anti-church lessons like when Christ said to be with God you do not have to visit his house, but have him in your heart, or something similar, and the Quran still has the twelve original lines of the Quran, but they have been buried by thousands of lines from the Code of Hammurabi, Mesopotamian culture, and a modified form of the Torah to make it look like the Arabs as the rightful descendants of Abraham.
I will try to find the pages for you with their quotes.
