Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

One of the reasons that I recommended the Online Bible BHS is because it is 
coded as an unpointed text. Therefore, searches using an unpointed search 
field are supported. It is not perfect.

Do the texts you recommend support unpointed searches? Do they allow default 
unpointed viewing? If the answer is yes to both, then there is no advantage 
to getting Online Bible and a Macintosh. If no to either, then a Macintosh, 
especially if one can get it free, even for only Bible studies, is worth it.

I use a Macintosh anyways so I do not have to worry about virii and worms 
while opening my email or surfing the web, as well as other tasks.

As for any copyright issues, I would be surprised if they had not taken care 
of it already.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> On 22/02/2004 21:27, Karl Randolph wrote:
> 
> >Dear Johathan:
> >
> >One resource is http://www.onlinebible.org . It has texts that are both 
> >pointed and unpointed. What you would want to download is BHS, which is 
> >the unpointed text.
> >
> >If you get Online Bible, I would highly recommend that you get a Macintosh 
> >if you do not already have one, as it displays well on the Macintosh, but 
> >not Windows. Even a really old Macintosh, just for using with Online 
> >Bible, is preferable to Windows. We were able to pick up even an old 
> >notebook, a 165C, that was being thrown away, for free, that can be used 
> >with Online Bible. It even runs on a Mac SE that has been upgraded to 4 MB 
> >RAM and OS 7.5, though much, much more powerful Macintoshes are being 
> >thrown away now. I also have a dictionary that is in MacWrite format that 
> >can be used with it, though I consider the dictionary as unfinished 
> >business at the present time.
> >
> >Karl W. Randolph.
> >
> >  
> >
> There is no need to pay for a Macintosh, or even to find a free one, 
> just in order to display the Hebrew text correctly. There are a number 
> of sites from which the Hebrew Bible text can be downloaded free, in a 
> form which can be read adequately with free fonts on Windows. See for 
> example http://www.mechon-mamre.org/ and, recently announced on this 
> list, http://users.ntplx.net/~kimball/Tanach/Tanach.zip. These are 
> pointed texts, but there are ways of removing the pointing if you really 
> want to.
> 
> By the way, the BHS is not the unpointed text, and if Online Bible is 
> distributing an online text and calling it "BHS" they may well be in 
> breach of copyright.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
> 

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