Greek Old Testament in Unicode

Greek Old Testament in Unicode

We are pleased to make available the entire text of the Greek Old Testament, the UBS Septuaginta (LXX), edited by Alfred Rahlfs, authorized by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft and the United Bible Societies. The text is available for Windows or Macintosh in two formats, Greek or Transliterated according to the SBL convention.

for Windows

for Macintosh

What are others saying?

Greek: The Greek text is formatted in SymbolGreekU, our beautiful new Unicode-encoded Greek font, part of LaserGreek in Unicode, which includes all standard accents, breathing marks, iota subscripts and diereses, and combinations of these used in Biblical Greek. Using SymbolGreekU or SymbolGreekTU the fully accented text is clearly visible on screen and may be printed on any printer to the highest quality supported by your printer. SymbolGreekTU is the font style of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, with tilde-shaped circumflex accents (perispomeni). The text files are supplied in Word format (see System Requirements for Windows or Macintosh). Any portion of the New Testament may be copied and pasted into other documents. Users may also format the text with any of the typefaces available in LaserGreek in Unicode. Below are samples in the SymbolGreekU font.

Genesis 1:1 from the Greek Old Testament shown in the SymbolGreekU font

Transliterated: The texts also are available transliterated according to the SBL convention using our remarkable new Unicode-encoded transliteration font, TranslitLSU. This Times®-style font, part of the Semitic Transliterator in Unicode product, includes all characters and diacritics necessary to transliterate the Greek Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Scriptures, and other Semitic languages. In this transliteration method omega is o-macron, eta is e-macron, and iota subscript is cedilla. Below is a larger sample of the text in the TranslitLSU font. (Owners of other typestyles in the Semitic Transliterator in Unicode product may highlight the text of the Greek Old Testament Transliterated and apply the typestyle they own to convert the files to their desired typestyle.) Adding transliterated portions of the LXX to your documents is now as simple as a copy and paste operation.

Genesis 1:1 from the Greek Old Testament Transliterated shown in the TranslitLSU font

Note: These are Bible text files (Word files) only, 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 Greek Old Testament and to search or manipulate them in any way supported by these applications. This product is valuable to Biblical scholars because it provides the Greek Old Testament (either in Greek or transliterated) formatted for use with Unicode-encoded fonts, and because the files will work in any Unicode-aware application which can import Word files. Thus users are not limited to using the full text in a single Bible-search program.

Below you will find information about the Windows product, the Macintosh product, and larger samples of both the Greek Old Testament and the Greek Old Testament Transliterated.

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Greek Old Testament in Unicode for Windows

System Requirements: Requires Windows XP/2000/NT4/Me/98/95; Microsoft® Word for Windows 2003, 2002 (XP), 2000, or 97 (or any other fully Unicode-aware application which can import Word 2003 files). Also required: For the Greek text one of the Linguist's Software LaserGreek in Unicode for Windows fonts; for the Transliterated texts one of the Linguist's Software Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Windows fonts. Note that to use the keyboard drivers included in LaserGreek in Unicode for Windows or in Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Windows users must have Windows XP/2000/NT4. The keyboard drivers will not install into Windows Me/98/95. (See the two product pages for details.) The fonts will, however, install into Windows Me/98/95, allowing anyone with a Unicode-compatible word processor that will import Word 2003 files to open the Greek New Testament in Unicode for Windows texts and read them, copy and paste portions of them, and print them. This product will not work in Windows 3.1.

Cost: USD $59.95 for either the Greek Old Testament in Unicode or the Greek Old Testament Transliterated in Unicode, or $79.95 for both Order

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MacGreek Old Testament in Unicode for Macintosh

System Requirements: Requires Mac OS X; any Unicode-compatible application that can read Word 2004 files. Also required: For the Greek texts a Unicode polytonic font such as the fonts in LaserGreek in Unicode for Macintosh, that includes all the characters in the Greek New Testament; for the Transliterated texts one of the fonts in the Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Macintosh product. The files in the Greek texts are formatted using the SymbolGreekU font, but may easily be reformatted using any of the Linguist's Software LaserGreek in Unicode for Macintosh fonts. The files in the Transliterated texts are formatted in the TranslitLSU font, but may easily be reformatted using any of the Linguist's Software Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Macintosh fonts.

The only Macintosh applications we are aware of that support Unicode at this time are Microsoft Word 2004, Mellel, InDesign CS, QuarkExpress 7.0, OpenOffice, Pages, Nisus Writer Express, TextEdit (included with Mac OS X), Oxygen, and BBEdit. We have only tested the fonts in Word 2004, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express and TextEdit. (If you are aware of additional applications please let us know.)

Cost: USD $59.95 for either the Greek Old Testament in Unicode or the Greek Old Testament Transliterated in Unicode, or $79.95 for both Order

Greek Old Testament in Unicode Sample formatted in SymbolGreekU

Greek Old Testament in Unicode sample, showing Genesis 1:1-5

Greek Old Testament Transliterated according to the SBL convention in Unicode formatted in TranslitLSU

Greek Old Testament Transliterated in Unicode sample, showing Genesis 1:1-5

Here's what others are saying about the Greek Old Testament in Unicode:

"In 2005 I purchased a Greek Old Testament in Unicode and LaserGreek OdysseaUBSU and GraecUBSU in Unicode from you. I must say that I am very impressed. You have saved me hours of time every week in typing the Scriptures for exegesis and what joy I had lost is back again. I am so thankful to God for Linguist's Software, Mr. Payne and his staff. You even made it possible for me to read my UBS in the font I grew up with! Foolish of me, I suppose, but there is some comfort in that and it speeds up my recognition of things. In the Mellel processor you sold me I can easily alternate between English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German. Now my study materials and papers look like I had hoped they would. And I see that, if I should like a font that works well with whatever English fonts I have, that you are making those available too. Just excellent! You restore font-work to the eye-aiding practical art it should be. Thank you again. Gott bei Ihnen!"
Rev. Bradley E. Ragner, BA, MDiv., Pastor Messiah Ev. Lutheran Church Shiocton, Wisconsin, USA

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