The Hebrew Text of the Tanach

 

 

We  have a copy of the 1917 Jewish Publicataion Society English translation of the Tanach in ASCII text format (the package in in a zipped archive). The text was extracted by Benyamin Pilant from a freeware bible program, the Online Bible

As to the quality of the text, Benyamin notes that the verse numbering differs in a few places from the Masoretic. Seth Ness found one instance (Exodus 6:3) where the divine name is spelled out as though it were meant to be pronounced by the reader. By and large, however, on first inspection the text looks like an accurate transcription of the JPS text.
Please also see Benyamin Pilant's Tanach archive, at the Breslov web site, which is an HTML version of the translation and has links between the text and various hebrew and aramaic versions available at snunit and ORT. In the future, links to Breslover texts will be added.

Online Hebrew Tanach and Shas!

Full Hebrew text of the Tanach, Talmud Bavli, and Talmud Yerushalmi is available from Snunit at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for Web browsing. There are hypertext links between psukim in Tanach and any mention of them in the Talmud and vice versa! These texts, along with Mishne Torah leRambam, Mishna, and Tosefta, are available for downloading along with DOS browsing software in the FREEware MTR package available from Mechon-mamre. This "DOS" software works just fine under Windows and can sent blocks of text up to 64K to the Windows ClipBoard for pasting, so it is not just plain old DOS software.

You may also find a fully voweled and punctuated Torah, Prophets and Writings (the whole TaNaKh -- Bible) text according to the Aleppo Codex which is HTML4 RTL text, not graphics!

The Mishneh Torah is also available, much improved from the Snunit version based on an old version of the text, which is also in HTML4 RTL text, but not voweled.

To find out how to read Hebrew on the net go here, to Hebrew University, or here, to Andy Tannenbaum's page.

Introduction

There are four main versions of tanach available here. First there is the l'chaim text. This text has mysterious origins and is missing the neviim rishonim. It is also not the masoretic text, but seems to be based on the BHS tanach. It is available in its standard form and in a mac version i made using a utility available in the software archives here. To read it under ms-dos or unix use the programs available here. To read it on a a mac is more complicated. If you just use a hebrew font it will be backwards. i've succeeded in reading it using either the israeli system software, available via FTP from ftp.apple.com in dts/mac , or worldscript for hebrew which you'll have to get on your own. Now, thanks to Eric Presser, you can read them in any word proccessor with a hebrew font. Just get the appropriate program(depending on which tanach you want to read) from the misc or 'other dos and mac programs' directory. Run the program on the text and them read it in any word proccessor with a hebrew font. I recommend the fonts in the israeli system software. To avoid all this trouble, get the online bible which i will discuss later.

 The second text is the chumash from the above text, cleaned up and changed to the masoretic text by dan rice. Everything said above about reading it still applies.

 The third text is the actual BHS text(including neviim rishonim).

 The fourth text is Steve Gross's transliterated Tanach. It provides an english transliterated, easily readable version of Tanach. Check out his readmes for explanations.

 Inside the 'other programs..' directory there are some programs for MS-DOS about which i know nothing and programs for the Mac to let you read the tanach in any word proccessor.

 Here are the various texts and associated programs...

 

ASCII english translation of Tanach from the 1917 JPS version(in a zipped package)
MS-DOS Programs for use with L'Chaim Tanach
L'Chaim Tanach Text
Masoretic Text of the Chumash
Steve Gross's Transliterated Tanach
UNIX Programs by Dan Rice for Manipulating Various Texts
UNIX Programs by Warren Burstein for the BHS Text
Other Tanach Programs for DOS and Mac

Here are some comments by Dan Rice about the various texts

Go to the Tanach Home Page

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