Dear Johathan: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.
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.
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.