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  • From: Peter_Kirk AT sil.org
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu, jayc AT telepath.com
  • Cc: Joan_Wardell AT sil.org
  • Subject: Re[2]: [Fwd: BHS Text]
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:37 -0500 (EST)


Dear all,

Just to clarify a few points to all of you, before I get even more
individual questions:

The BHS text which is now available from Oxford Text Archive (which I
successfully downloaded last night - more than 3 Mb straight to
Azerbaijan with no breaks is a record!) apparently consists of the
entire BHS in the encoding used by CCAT, and explained recently on
this list. It may not be exactly the same text that is available from
CCAT. It is described as "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia :
(Michigan-Claremont text) / compiled by Richard Whitaker and H. Van
Dyke Parunak ; and revised by the Computer Assisted Tools for
Septuagint Studies project under Emanuel Tov and Robert A. Kraft".

This text consists only of ASCII characters and includes all
cantillation marks. That means that it is not easily human readable!
There is no font for direct viewing of this text in proper Hebrew
script (that could not be done for a PC; a Mac setup could be made
e.g. with Worldscript, but I do not know of such a setup existing).

As I recommended in my original posting on this, this text can be
converted into a viewable form using the SIL Hebrew Font System, which
is available from www.sil.org (you will also need the CC (Consistent
Changes) program from the same site). First you need to convert the
text into a viewable form, using a 3-stage procedure which is clearly
outlined in the documentation of the SIL Hebrew Font System. You may
also want to split the text into separate files. Then you can view the
text with your favourite word processor using the SIL Ezra TrueType
font included in the package.

It would of course be much more convenient to have the text available
in this final and directly viewable form. I could make such a text
available for someone to put on a web site (first give me time to do
the above steps and check the results) if I could be assured that I
have the correct permissions to do so. The Oxford site states the BHS
text is "Freely available for non-commercial use provided that this
header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed"; does
that mean it is OK to put a processed form of this text on to a web
site? Is there, or is there going to be, a web site linked with
b-hebrew which could host this text?

Peter Kirk



  • [Fwd: BHS Text], Peter_Kirk, 11/29/1998
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    • Re[2]: [Fwd: BHS Text], Peter_Kirk, 11/30/1998

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