Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

Thanks for this URL. But it is unfortunate that the text is apparently only a rather old version of the Westminster Morphological Database. There are more recent versions available. The BHS text is available (for personal use) as a single (long) download from the Oxford Text Archive.

 

You will get better quality results in your Word document, though not save time, using the font and conversions which are part of the SIL Hebrew Font Package, free download from www.sil.org. See the list archives (recent) for some discussion of how to get round some of the difficulties with this.

 

Peter Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Cyberkotic AT aol.com [mailto:Cyberkotic AT aol.com]
Sent: 06 November 2000 15:23
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: BHS

In a message dated 11/6/2000 7:16:48 AM Central Standard Time,
lizfried AT umich.edu writes:

Is there a copy of the BHS on the web I can download sections from
and paste into a word document?

I'd be interested to see responses to this.  I'm not sure if there are other,
more direct sites for this, but I assume that for strictly personal use many
use basic ASCII text from sites such as
gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:3333/11/Religious/Biblical/.

This may take a bit of old-fashioned manual editing.  First, depending on
operating system, you probably will need to convert upper case text to lower
case.  Next, make sure the letters are converted to right-to-left
arrangement.  Then, if you wish to view the text in Hebrew script, you can
set the font format using a font of the standard Michigan-Claremont format,
such as SPTiberian.ttf in a Windows setting.  Finally, you may need to check
for minor differences in fonts (i.e., some use $ for shin, while others use
#).

There are other sites where you can also access the BHS for personal reading
copied from text/html format to WordPerfect or Word if you have the
corresponding font(s) in your fonts directory.  I'm interested in finding out
what others have to say on more time-efficient methods (switching case,
right-to-left, etc.).

Thank you all,


Gerald Zimmerman,
Carbondale, IL  62901
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