ONLINE RESOURCES for Biblical Hebrew

 

Online Resources Index

Biblical Hebrew Acquisition

Biblical Hebrew Audio

Biblical Texts — Hebrew

Biblical Texts — Multiple Languages

Hebrew Lexical Resources

Hebrew Fonts

Miscellaneous

 

Biblical Hebrew Acquisition                                                                  Back to Online Resources Index

Hebrew 4 Christians

• Created by a messianic Jew, this is one of my favorite sites. A very nice looking site with much to offer including lots of audio. I have been particularly interested in the numerous Jewish prayers.

 

Biblia Hebraica

• Notes, Exercises, Quizzes

 

Codex » Biblical Hebrew Resources by Tyler F. Williams

 

Biblical Language Center by Randall Buth

 

Biblical Hebrew Online Lab (Currently unavailable. If anyone knows where this site has moved to please email me.)

• This is a really impressive site hosted by Cumberland College. There are lots of Flash animations and quizzes to help you learn and give you plenty of practice with the formation of nouns and verbs, the meanings and uses of prepositions, vocabulary, etc.

 

Biblical Hebrew Audio                                                                            Back to Online Resources Index

TalkingBibles.com (a.k.a. Audio Scriptures International; Talking Bibles International)

• This site has the whole Hebrew OT in audio format that you can listen to online.

• An CD of the whole Hebrew OT in mp3 format can be purchased here.

 

Academy of Ancient Languages

• These mp3 files are the same as TalkingBibles.com but with a different (easier?) layout.

 

Navigating the Bible II

   The audio resources on this site are a nice complement to what is provided by the above two sites because the Hebrew readings are cantilated. Note that navigating the sight can be a bit tricky but well worth spending time learning to get around.

 

SiddurAudio by Rabbi Mark Zimmerman

• This site contains audio files of the Hebrew liturgy of the Siddur (Jewish prayer book), from the various services found in the Siddur Sim Shalom.  Included are psalms that are set to melody, and my favorites are those that were set to music by Carlebach (Psalms 29, 96, and 98).

 

Hebrew Radio

The following sites are not directly related to biblical Hebrew, but are a resource for listening to modern Hebrew.

 

• SBS Radio

• More to come . . .

 

Biblical Texts — Hebrew                                                                        Back to Online Resources Index

Unicode Tanach by Christopher V. Kimball

• Here is the Westminster Leningrad Codex in Unicode. This is a really nice site because you can search and you can display the text with or without vowels, with or without accents. Also contains a link for displaying the Documentary Hypothesis (DH). You can also download the whole thing to your own computer and thereby use it offline.

• It may take some time to get your computer/browser to show the vowel points and accents properly. Instructions can be found here.

 

The Bible Tool • Westminster Leningrad Codex • Aleppo Codex

• Really amazing set of original language texts and translations. Some of the features offered are the ability to display texts in parallel and the ability to perform searches. Some texts are morphologically tagged and some have defintions (e.g., see the Westcott-Hort w. readings of the NA27/UBS4).

• In their own words... “Welcome to The Bible Tool-- a free, evolving open source tool for exploring the Bible and related texts online. Created by CrossWire Bible Society, the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Bible Society as the first in a number of coming Bible engagement tools using an XML standard called OSIS, we provide power searching capabilities and cutting edge tools to help you engage the Bible at a deeper level. Learn More...”

 

The Aleppo Codex

• This is an extremely impressive site devoted solely to the Aleppo Codex (ad 925). Unbelievable but true it contains high-resolution photographs of the entire Aleppo Codex (that is, what surved the anti-Jewish riots in 1948. Unfortunately, most of the Pentateuch was destroyed as were some other parts. And really unfortunate for Hebrew 2, the book of Jonah has not survived.).

 

www.zhubert.com by Zach Hubert

• I use this site quite a bit especially for the Greek NT. The Hebrew OT is still being developed; the text is there but not all of the lexical resources that are available for the NT.

• In their own words... “This website is designed to make the study of the Bible in the original languages more accessible. As such, we have the Greek original behind the majority of modern translations (NIV,ESV,etc.) which has been diligently tagged by James Tauber (version 5.07). This 'tagging' indicates what the original word was (verb, noun, present, past, etc.) and does not reflect a 'change' to the text itself in any way. The Septuagint or Greek Old Testament (LXX) is also available, as is the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh. Some Deuterocanonical books such as Tobit have been included for reference. As there are now more features than I can list on this first page, I strongly encourage you to visit the Tutorial for a tour of what you can do here as well as to get help with common problems.

 

Navigating the Bible II

   Contains a number of resources both text and audio for studying, reading, and listening to the Hebrew Bible. It presents itself as an “Online Bar / Bat Mitzvah Tutor” and has various categories of readings. In its own words. . .

                    Journey into the world of the Jewish Bible.

                            Study the portions. Hear the melodies.
                         Follow the themes and learn what the scholars say.
                         Explore it as history -- literature -- religion:

                                            A multitude of paths awaits you.

 

Unicode Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) @ sacred-texts.com

   Not as nice as Kimball’s Unicode Tanach (see above) but well worth checking out the other texts they have available.

 

Tanach on Demand • Mishna on Demand

   This is a really interesting and potentially useful site, which allows you to create your own PDF files of the Hebrew Bible. Here is what the site has to say about itself:  Use this page to create your own custom Tanach printout in Hebrew. The way it works is this: You choose which verses you want from which book and the style in which you want them printed. Then this server instantly creates a PDF file with exactly what you requested. You can download as many printouts as you want, as often as you want.

 

Mechon Mamre

   Provides a variety of Hebrew and Hebrew-English parallel bibles in PDF and HTML formats. Also has some Aramaic Targums and other related resources.

 

Hebrew Old Testament Links @ www.bible-researcher.com

   Provides links to other Hebrew web resources in the following areas: Online Hebrew texts, Audio Recordings of the Hebrew Texts, Textual Criticism, Hebrew Language, Introductions and Surveys, Miscellaneous, Bibliographies, Discussion, Web Directories, Books

 

Biblical Texts — Multiple Languages                                                 Back to Online Resources Index

www.zhubert.com by Zach Hubert

• I use this site quite a bit especially for the Greek NT. The Hebrew OT is still being developed; the text is there but not all of the lexical resources that are available for the NT.

• In their own words... “This website is designed to make the study of the Bible in the original languages more accessible. As such, we have the Greek original behind the majority of modern translations (NIV,ESV,etc.) which has been diligently tagged by James Tauber (version 5.07). This 'tagging' indicates what the original word was (verb, noun, present, past, etc.) and does not reflect a 'change' to the text itself in any way. The Septuagint or Greek Old Testament (LXX) is also available, as is the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh. Some Deuterocanonical books such as Tobit have been included for reference. As there are now more features than I can list on this first page, I strongly encourage you to visit the Tutorial for a tour of what you can do here as well as to get help with common problems.

 

The Bible Tool

Really amazing set of original language texts and translations. Some of the features offered are the ability to display texts in parallel and the ability to perform searches. Some texts are morphologically tagged and some have defintions (e.g., see the Westcott-Hort w. readings of the NA27/UBS4).

• In their own words... “Welcome to The Bible Tool-- a free, evolving open source tool for exploring the Bible and related texts online. Created by CrossWire Bible Society, the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Bible Society as the first in a number of coming Bible engagement tools using an XML standard called OSIS, we provide power searching capabilities and cutting edge tools to help you engage the Bible at a deeper level. Learn More...”

 

The NET Bible — The New English Translation @ www.bible.org

One of the primary strengths of the New English Translation of the Bible are the extensive translator notes that provide a wealth of information regarding the Hebrew and Greek text, including text critical evaluations and lexical and exegetical discussions of words and idioms.

• Make sure to also download the fonts so you can view the Hebrew and Greek characters http://www.bible.org/download/biblescript/bssw.htm).

• You can use this online or download it here to make it available on your own computer offline.

 

Miscellaneous — Will Describe Someday

All-in-One Bible Resources Search

Bible Gateway

Blue Letter Bible.

Crosswalk

HTML Bible

Online Bible

The SWORD Project

Unbound Bible

 

Hebrew Lexical Resources                                                                   Back to Online Resources Index

BDB Online @ crosswalk.com a.k.a. biblestudytools.net

• To use this resource you will need to install the BSTFonts available here.

 

Hebrew Fonts                                                                                           Back to Online Resources Index

Unicode

Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode from SIL International

 

SBL Hebrew Unicode from the Society of Biblical Literature

• Go down to the bottom of the page for instructions and link to download SBL Hebrew.

 

Miscellaneous                                                                                          Back to Online Resources Index

Codex by Tyler F. Williams

 

WSRP — West Semitic Research Project

   Contains scholarly and educational links.

 

www.bible-researcher.com by Michael Marlowe

• The Hebrew Text of the Old Testament

• Hebrew Old Testament Links. Provides links to other Hebrew web resources in the following areas: Online Hebrew texts, Audio Recordings of the Hebrew Texts, Textual Criticism, Hebrew Language, Introductions and Surveys, Miscellaneous, Bibliographies, Discussion, Web Directories, Books

 

Ancient Hebrew Poetry by John F. Hobbins

 

David L. Washburn Homepage

 

Biblical Hebrew Resource Page

 

Hebrew Abbreviations

 

Bibliographical Tools for the Study of Hebrew Bible Texts by Marc Brettler

   According to this site: There is a set of specialized tools for studying biblical Hebrew texts. These are different from the tools used for modern Hebrew because the languages are substantially different, and because the study of ancient texts, written in "dead" or "literary" languages, such as BH (biblical Hebrew), is fundamentally different from the study of modern languages. The types of tools are: scholarly editions of the Hebrew Bible, lexica, grammars, concordances. The following introduces the most popular of these tools, explains their utility, and offers examples of how and when to use them. The exercises further illustrate these tools' utility and use.