Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex

The Hebrew bible, the Tanach, has been transcribed from the electronic text of the Leningrad Codex maintained by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research to a modern Unicode and XML-based format. The Coding page describes the transcription process. The license of use is very generous.

Text can be rapidly accessed by providing a citation, i.e. Deut 26:5-9, in a text field or by clicking on a succession of links. Text can be displayed in a variety of formats and font sizes. Hebrew text may be highlighted, copied, and pasted into Unicode compatible applications. Books of the Torah have an option to display source markings of the Documentary Hypothesis (DH). Files include a standard Text Encoding Initiative header describing the provenance of the text..

An HTML server is available separately to provide the Hebrew text in user-selected format.

An RSS feed of random verses provides a learning challenge.

Text-dependent links to external sites, such as translations, may be created.

The software that generated the site is freely available as Java source and class files.

Notices about the site are published on the b-hebrew mailing list at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew. The subject line of the notices contains the phrase "Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex".

Transcriber: Christopher V. Kimball, West Redding, CT, USA