Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>]

Dear all,

I have made a wiki style translating engine for a modified 
version of the Aleppo xml text.

The homepage of the translator is here:

http://www.lamie.org/hebrew/aleppowikitranslator.php

To start translating you need to choose a book e.g.

http://www.lamie.org/hebrew/aleppowikitranslator.php?s=s&b=Gen

>From here you need to choose an open paragraphed section 
e.g.

http://www.lamie.org/hebrew/aleppowikitranslator.php?s=f&a=1&z=5

Here you are presented with a table of the words and 
combinations contained within the selected section and 
their stored translations. The defaults are the original 
words/phrases.

A word/phrase can be translated by entering the desired 
translation in the corresponding input box in the table 
and clicking translate.

Below the table is a side by side view of the original 
hebrew and the translation. Each time a new word/phrase 
translation is saved the translated view is updated.

The engine is wiki styled and anybody can update the 
translations completely anonymously with no need to 
register an account or login.

The default translation engine is a level 5 translation 
engine which means that 5 word combinations are 
translated first, then 4, then 3, then 2, then 1.

I hope to add levels 1,2,3,4 and the option to switch 
between them so that users can view a more literal or 
a more idiomatic translation by merely switching 
translation levels. This functionality should be added 
within the next few days.

I invite everybody to participate in this experiment 
and to invite their students to participate. The 
exerices could prove invaluable to students who wish to 
learn common words/phrases and get involved in a 
community based translation exercise. It could also 
prove invaluable to more experienced hebrew linguists 
as a consolidatory exercise.

If anybody would like to have their own private password 
protected translation engine that can be arranged by 
dropping me a private off list email.

Any feature requests for the wiki version will be
greatly welcomed.

If testing of the wiki goes well this project could end
up in a robust open source desktop bible translating
package that participants in this experiment will be
the first to hear about. So please have a go.

James C. Read
UK















 few days.

I invite everybody to participate in this experiment
and to invite their students to participate. The
exerices could prove invaluable to students who wish to
learn common words/phrases and get involved in a
community based translation exercise. It