Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Naama Zahavi-Ely <nxzaha AT wm.edu>]

The Silver Mountain site is http://www.silvermnt.com/ ; the software I have is
Bible Windows, and I am very pleased with it.  I am not connected with them in
any way, other than as a satisfied customer.

Best wishes,

Naama

Charles David Isbell wrote:

> Per your question about teaching the te'amim, I quite agree with your
> conclusion that despite the task of learning an extra set of markers,
> students should be introduced to the accents.  My method is to describe them
> as a rabbinic commentary on the consonantal text explaining a traditional
> way in which the rabbis believed the text should be parsed, framed, and even
> pronounced and sung.  And I have found that they become invaluable to
> beginning students attempting to puzzle through which adjective goes with
> what noun, etc.
> Thanks for an informative posting.  Is there a site where we can learn about
> and perhaps order Bible Windows?
> Charles David Isbell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Naama Zahavi-Ely" <nxzaha AT wm.edu>
> To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Hebrew Bible Software & Text -- accents
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I use Bible Windows by Silver Mountain Software;  full searchable text of
> the Hebrew
> > Bible including accents, and with full morphological tagging and lexical
> entries.  It
> > uses the same mapping as the shebrew  font, and one can do grammatical
> searches
> > easily.  It also has the greek text (New Testament and LXX), the Latin
> text, and many
> > translations.  It is very helpful for finding examples of texts for my
> students, and I
> > use it constantly.  In terms of contents, the main difference between
> Bible Windows and
> > Logos as far as the Hebrew text is concerned is the inclusion of accents.
> This was
> > reason enough for me to buy Bible Windows, even though I already had a
> searchable fully
> > vocalized text of the Hebrew Bible.  I don't regret it.  I also find it
> friendly and
> > easy to use.
> >
> > There is also a group at Bar Ilan university in Israel who are working on
> an electronic
> > copy of the Bible with accents, and with very extensive searching
> abilities.
> > Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, at this point their software
> works with the
> > Hebrew version of Windows only.
> >
> > By the way, I teach my students to use the accents as help in breaking up
> a verse into
> > smaller units.  This involves learning yet another set of markers, and a
> different
> > logic of how to understand them than anything they are used to with modern
> punctuation
> > marks;  but it seems to be helpful, at least to some of them.  Does
> anybody have
> > experience with teaching accents as syntax help?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Naama Zahavi-Ely
> > College of William and Mary
> > nxzaha AT wm.edu
> >
> > "Karl M. Bunday" wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > >
> > > I just ordered BibleWorks 4.0 and was dismayed to see your message
> > > about the lack of accents just before I placed my order. Oh well, I
> > > can still get good use out of the grammatical tag search engine in
> > > that product, I think. I teach Hebrew and need a more convenient way
> > > of finding example sentences to show to my students than Logos
> > > provides.
> > >
> > > > and the 2.0 version of PCStudy Bible,
> > > > which has the BHS designated as GBH.
> > >
> > > Does that have any features that make it worth getting now that I have
> > > the other two?
> > >
> > > > None of these have accents or massorah magna or parva.
> > >
> > > It's quite surprising none have the accents. I will make that a
> > > suggestion for BibleWorks as a matter of product improvement.
> > >
> > > > Is there software available that has this capacity?  In a
> > > > related vein, are there Hebrew fonts available with accents?
> > >
> > > Most definitely. The Hebrew fonts available from Linguist's Software
> > >
> > > http://www.linguistsoftware.com/
> > >
> > > has the ability to display ANY Tiberian accent. I run into a few
> > > glitches in using it under Chinese-language Windows, which are
> > > documented in the program manual, but I expect it would work very well
> > > indeed under English Windows. I can get the accent symbols I want
> > > where I want them with that product.
> > >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >
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