PART I	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING WAR
	Chapter  1	About Ethical Canons and War
	Chapter  2	Decisions Precipitating War
	Chapter  3	Human Sacrifice
	Chapter  4	Amiriyah Shelter
	PART II	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING EQUALITY
	Chapter  5	Slavery
	Chapter  6	Arens' Atrocity Attribution Theory
	Chapter  7	Genocide of Native Americans
	Chapter  8	Intermarriage
	PART III	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING JUSTICE
	Chapter  9	Incarceration
	Chapter 10	Reemergence of Torture
	Chapter 11	Witchcraft Trials
	Chapter 12	Trials of Heretics
	PART IV	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING RELIGION
	Chapter 13	The New and Old Testaments
	Chapter 14	Transplanted Mentality
	Chapter 15	God and His Messengers
	PART V	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING EMPATHY
	Chapter 16	Karla Tucker and George W. Bush
	Chapter 17	A Girl with the Almond Eyes
	Chapter 18	Beyond Partiality: Building a World of Laughter and Love

The New and Old Testaments

In the first century, a group of intellectuals (according to unattested sources centered around the Rome's Pisa family) admired the success of the Jewish religion and patterned after it its Christian version. This version of Torah, abbreviated, updated, revised and mythologized, was recorded in the New Testament. In the seventh century, the Muhammad followed their example and elaborated another version of Torah, recorded in the Qur'an. 

During the Dark and Middle Ages the books were few and expensive and most converts to Christianity did not read the Bible. Biblical stories and precepts were communicated by oral narratives, mostly by priests who told the codified interpretation of Bible to their parishioners. With the invention of printing and translation of Bible into local languages, people started to read Bible for themselves and, as the Bible is open to many interpretations, new variations of Judaism started to emerge.
 
Bible is a thick book with the written Torah (Old Testament) taking most of its bulk. According to Anderson's (1974) model of opinion change, opinions and beliefs have aside of a superficial component also a basal component, which is effected by the law of primacy and is largely resistant to change once it had come into being. Thus, predictably, the 'people of the book' remembered better the opening chapters of the Bible than the chapters that follow and started to stress the lore of the Old Testament. Thus, gradually, the Christianity bifurcated into Catholicism with a single, codified interpretation of the Bible stressing the New Testament and Protestantism with multiple codified interpretations of the Bible with the stress on the Old Testament. At that time the phenomenon, latent since the inception of Christianity and called the 'transplanted mentality,' started to gain sharp contours.