[sword-devel] Language codes for Hebrew

[Peter von Kaehne]

I think it is clear that Biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew are two
separate beasts.

If you look at classes - the distinction is routinely Biblical and
Modern. 

What you refer to as ancient Hebrew - I think this is largely
irrelevant for our purposes. A while back someone offered us Ancient
Hebrew scriptures modules. When I looked into it it became abundantly
clear that it was rubbish - someone had done some font replacement and
saw deep spiritual meanings in the more ancient fonts. What is
available in genuine texts in ancient Hebrew amounts to a few
inscriptions etc. So we got three stages - Ancient (irrelevant),
Biblical (everything but two modules of us) and Modern/Ivrit (Delitzsch
etc). Which codes apply to which I do not know. But it is clear that
Ivrit and Biblical Hebrew will have and should have two different
codes. It is not the same. 

Peter

On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 10:16 -0500, DM Smith wrote:
> I don’t think so. I think that unless the text predates 1100AD it
> should be ‘he’. The Masoretic Text is modern Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew
> had different glyphs for letters and had additional letters.
> 
> Let’s wait and see if we get a response from a Hebrew scholar before
> we do anything.
> 
> — DM
> 
> > On Jan 9, 2016, at 8:48 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I concur.  
> > 
> > I think we should change the lang code in our Biblical Hebrew
> > modules to
> > hbo.
> > Aleppo, MapM, OSHB, SP, SPDSS, SPMT, SPVar, WLC
> > 
> > Our modern Hebrew modules, HebModern and HebDelitzsch should remain
> > with
> > heb.
> > 
> > btw. I just noticed that the Xiphos repo also has a Delitzsch
> > module called
> > HebNTFD.
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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