Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

This is a follow up to what I wrote yesterday...

I spoke to one of the SIL people responsible for the SIL Hebrew Font System
(available from www.sil.org). This person thought that it was against the
OTA etc copyright rules for anyone to redistribute the OTA BHS text. We
agreed that the situation is far from clear. So I would like to make it
clear that we in SIL are in no way promoting or recommending redistribution
of this text. If anyone does so, it is on their own responsibility and based
on their own understanding of the OTA rules. As long as this is understood,
there is no problem that the SIL conversion programs have been used.

I have now found a way in which the fully cantillated BHS text, using the
SIL Ezra fonts, is publicly available. A company called iexalt is now
selling a package developed by SIL called BART, Biblical Analysis and
Research Tool. This was being advertised as the only product offering the
fully cantillated Hebrew text, but we have just heard that another package
now offers this, I think the name is Bible Windows. For more details of
BART, see http://www.wordsearchbible.com/GrHeb.htm#Biblical Analysis and
Research Tools (BART). I will post details of this separately for those not
following this thread.

Peter` Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kirk [mailto:Peter_Kirk AT sil.org]
Sent: 13 November 2000 21:29
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: RE: Conversion of OTA BHS text


As I understand it, the main reason for the SIL software not working
properly is that it was designed to work with the slightly different CCAT
data format rather than the OTA text. That is not a bug.

May I make a suggestion. John R has "what is, so far as I can see, a perfect
text". Perhaps either he or Henry can put this up on a website...

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