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Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode

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Now You Can Add The Text of the Hebrew Scriptures (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) To Your Documents	for Windows
	for Macintosh
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We are pleased to make available the text of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, authorized by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. The text is available for Windows or Macintosh, in 12 formats (ten in Hebrew and two Transliterated).

Hebrew: The ten formats of the Hebrew texts are formatted with the beautiful NewJerusalemU Unicode-encoded Hebrew font, one of nine fonts available in the LaserHebrew in Unicode product family. Eight of these unique fonts include all vowels, accents and cantillation marks, and other diacritical marks used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), and are the only fonts available today which reproduce all of the forms, properly positioned, that occur in the BHS/Leningrad Codex. The NewJerusalemU font and these texts are being used to produce the new Oxford Hebrew Bible (page 13 of the OHB Guide for Editors identifies the Greek and Hebrew fonts and texts from Linguist's Software being used). The Hebrew texts described below are formatted with the NewJerusalemU font, but users may reformat the texts with any of the fonts in LaserHebrew in Unicode (except for ScriptHebrewU, which is consonantal only).

Any portion of the Hebrew Scriptures can be copied and pasted into other documents, e.g.:

See below for a description of all ten Hebrew formats.

Transliterated: The Hebrew Scriptures are also available transliterated, SBL-style, vocalized, using our new Unicode-encoded transliteration font, TranslitLSU. This Times®-style font, part of the Semitic Transliterator in Unicode product, includes all the characters and diacritics necessary to transliterate the Hebrew Scriptures, the Greek Old and New Testaments, and other Semitic languages.

Adding transliterated portions of the BHS to your documents is now as simple as a copy and paste operation. The transliterated texts can be purchased in two formats, described below.

Formats Available For The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode

Formats Available For The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode

Summary Description of the Twelve Arrangements

The Hebrew Scriptures texts are available in twelve formats, summarized here. When you purchase any one full-priced format (USD $59.95) additional formats are only $20 each when purchased at the same time. Or purchase all 12 formats together (Hebrew Scriptures Professional in Unicode) for only $99.95. The individual links below take you down the page to samples (Genesis 1:1-4) of each format, or click here to go directly to the start of the samples.

• Vocalized and Accented
1. With BHS Line Breaks
2. Justified by Verse, with each verse a new paragraph
3. Justified by Paragraphs with paragraph breaks determined by chapters and isolated pe's and samek's. There are two different forms of this format. (If you are considering these formats see the effect of justified paragraphs on poetry.)
1. Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's; and
2. Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's removed from the text.
• Vocalized
1. With BHS Line Breaks
2. Justified by Verse, with each verse a new paragraph
3. Justified by Paragraphs with paragraph breaks determined by chapters and isolated pe's and samek's. There are two different forms of this format. (If you are considering these formats see the effect of justified paragraphs on poetry.)
1. Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's; and
2. Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's removed from the text.
• Consonantal
1. Consonantal Text (with Sin and Shin Distinguished)
2. Consonantal Text (with Sin and Shin Dots Removed)
• Transliterated
1. Transliterated SBL-style, vocalized
2. Transliterated SBL-style, vocalized, but with spirant letters distinguished (underlined)

Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Samples

Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Samples

The Twelve Arrangements With Samples

When you purchase any one full-priced format (USD $59.95) additional formats are only $20 each (when purchased at the same time). Or purchase all 12 formats together (Hebrew Scriptures Professional in Unicode) for only $99.95.

At the bottom of these samples is a link to open a window showing much larger samples of the texts.

• Vocalized and Accented
1. With BHS Line Breaks
2. 
3. Justified by Verse, with each verse a new paragraph
4. 
5. Justified by Paragraphs with paragraph breaks determined by chapters, pe's, and samek's. There are two different forms of this format. (If you are considering these formats see the effect of justified paragraphs on poetry.)
1. Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's
2. 
3. Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's removed from the text
4. 
• Vocalized
1. Vocalized With BHS Line Breaks
2. 
3. Vocalized Justified by Verse, with each verse a new paragraph
4. 
5. Vocalized Justified by Paragraphs (Paragraph breaks are determined by chapters, pe's, and samek's.) There are two different forms of this format:
1. Vocalized Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's
2. 
3. Vocalized Justified Paragraphs With Isolated Pe's and Samek's removed from the text
4. 
• Consonantal
1. Consonantal Text (with Sin and Shin Distinguished)
2. 
3. Consonantal Text (with Sin and Shin Dots Removed)
4. 
• Transliterated
1. Transliterated SBL-style, vocalized
2. 
3. Transliterated SBL-style, vocalized, but with spirant letters distinguished (underlined)
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• The Effect of Justified Paragraphs on Poetry
1. If you purchase either of the two Justified Paragraph texts, most Psalms (and other poetry) are one continuous, fully justified paragraph, as this sample of Psalms 1 demonstrates.
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3. Users who purchase one of the Justified Paragraph formats may therefore also wish to purchase the BHS Line Breaks format in order to get the poetic texts with BHS line breaks, as Psalms 1 is shown here. The cost of a second (and any additional) format is only $20 when purchased at the same time as a full-priced format.
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(Back up to the Summary of Arrangements or the Arrangements with Samples)

Click here to open a new window to see additional samples of text in a much larger point size.

Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode for Windows

Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode for Windows

The Hebrew Scriptures text is provided in Word for Windows files (compatible with Word 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 and 2002). The texts are available in the twelve formats described above (ten in Hebrew and two transliterated).

Windows System Requirements:

• Fonts
  1. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode requires one of the fonts in LaserHebrew in Unicode for Windows version 11.0 or newer (sold separately).
  2. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Transliterated requires one of the fonts in Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Windows (sold separately).
• Operating System
1. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode requires Windows 10, 8, 7, or Vista.
2. An older version is available for Windows XP and 2000 SP3, but you must contact the office or specify the Windows XP version on the order form in the Special Instructions dialog box. NB: In Windows XP and 2000 SP3 you must install Hebrew supplemental language support. (Instructions for installing this Microsoft-supplied component into Windows XP and 2000 are provided with LaserHebrew in Unicode for Windows. You must have your original Windows XP or 2000 CD, OEM-provided Recovery CD, or pre-loaded CAB files to install supplemental language support.)
3. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Transliterated requires Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, or 2000 SP3.
• Applications
1. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode requires Word, InDesign CS4 (with World Tools or ScribeDOOR installed), OpenOffice.org 3, or another Unicode-compatible application that handles Hebrew vowels and accents similarly to Word. At the time this product was released we were not aware of any other applications that support the features in these fonts. Because OpenOffice is compatible we expect LibreOffice to be compatible, but it has not been tested. QuarkXPress 8.02 has been tested, and is not compatible.
2. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Transliterated requires Word 97 or newer, or any Unicode-compatible application that can read a Word file.
3. WordPerfect (tested through v12), QuarkXPress v6.5 and earlier, FrameMaker, and PageMaker do not support the Hebrew Scriptures (Hebrew or Transliterated) in Unicode, since these applications are not Unicode-compatible.
• Notes
1. Files created with these texts are compatible with the Macintosh version of the texts. No conversion of files is necessary when transferring files to the Macintosh if your applications are fully Unicode-aware and LaserHebrew in Unicode and/or Semitic Transliterator in Unicode is installed on both systems.
2. These are Bible text files only (Word files), and not a concordance program. The files are designed to work in your Unicode-aware applications and allow you to copy and paste, and print, portions of the Hebrew Scriptures and to search or manipulate them in any way supported by these applications. But there is no search or concording feature built into the product. This product is valuable to Biblical scholars because it provides the Hebrew Scriptures formatted for use with our Unicode-encoded fonts (Hebrew fonts and transliteration fonts), and because the files will work in any Unicode-aware, OpenType-enabled application. (In the case of the Hebrew, the application must also support Hebrew vowels and accents.) Thus users are not limited to using the full text in a single Bible-search program.

Cost: US$ 59.95 for any one format; $20 for each additional format purchased at the same time. Or purchase all 12 formats together (Hebrew Scriptures Professional in Unicode) for only $99.95. Order

(Before you order be sure you have read the System Requirements.)

Do you need to upgrade? Check the current version number and a Release History.

Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode for Macintosh

Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode for Macintosh

The Hebrew Scriptures text is provided in Microsoft Word and Mellel format files.

Macintosh System Requirements:

• Fonts
1. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode requires one of the fonts in LaserHebrew in Unicode for Macintosh version 11.0 or newer (sold separately).
2. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Transliterated requires one of the fonts in Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Macintosh (sold separately).
• Operating Systems
1. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
• Applications
1. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode requires Mellel, sold separately.
2. The Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode Transliterated requires any Unicode-compatible application, including Word 2004.
• Notes
1. Files created with these fonts are compatible with the Windows version of LaserHebrew in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary when transferring files to Windows if your applications are fully Unicode-aware and LaserHebrew in Unicode is installed on both systems.
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3. These are text files only and not a concordance program. The Hebrew texts are formatted as Word .docx files and as Mellel files. Mellel includes extensive and sophisticated search features, including Boolean searches. The Transliterated texts are formatted as Word .doc files. The files are designed to work in Mellel/Word and allow you to copy, paste, and print, portions of the Hebrew Scriptures and to search or manipulate them in any way supported by Mellel/Word. But there is no search or concording feature built into the product. This product is valuable to Biblical scholars because it provides the Hebrew Scriptures formatted for use with our Unicode-encoded fonts, and because the files will work in any Unicode-aware, OpenType-enabled application. (In the case of the Hebrew texts, the application must also support Hebrew vowels and accents.)

Cost: US$ 59.95 for any single format; $20 for each additional format purchased at the same time. Or purchase all 12 formats together (Hebrew Scriptures Professional in Unicode) for only $99.95. Order

(Before you order be sure you have read the System Requirements.)

 

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