@Davïd If you run across any good transliteration tool other than transliterate.com, can you let us know? That one doesn’t work in any browser on a Mac (Dan confirmed this is not just my incompetence with copy/paste).

I did these manually based on the transliteration guide in the front of TLOT (heh, now I’m using abbreviations I wouldn’t recognize, but I’m guessing you will - something I found in my Accordance library :-)), and I’m glad to see it explicitly laid out like that, but going letter by letter is a pain. (Feel free to fix those if wrong - it’s just two words.)

@Susan Hiya - I'm only aware of one other tool like that, but I find its results a bit iffy: A Little Hebrew - Transliterate. Too bad Matthew Anstey's transliterated Hebrew Bible is offline. Great resource (or would be...)

@Davïd Do you remember an online resource that contains the rules for transliterate the Hebrew? ☺

@PaulVargas There must be some decent ones out there. The SBL system is pretty standard. I found a good summary of the "rules", and an extract of the Handbook with some explanations.

@Davïd Thanks. :-) I would like to create an application that does something similar to transliterate.com.

@PaulVargas That would be cool. :) I'd be happy to help test if you get something working.

@PaulVargas Perl?

@Davïd HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ;-)

@PaulVargas :)

@PaulVargas So you can do string processing with JavaScript, eh? Shows you what I know!

@PaulVargas There will probably be some cases you can't distinguish: I don't think long-a and short-o can be machine-distinguished in some circumstances.

@Davïd Vocal shewa would take a few rules too....and sorting out the dagesh in bgdkpt....but I guess it's just rules, and computers do rules. When Paul programs them.

@Susan :D Indeed! It would be interesting to pick some "edge cases" and see what the existing tools do with them.

@Davïd JavaScript is not as powerful as Perl, but it is possible.

@Susan Humm... I could start with something basic. Then I could include more complicated.

@PaulVargas E.J. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in this field. See the two transliteration systems linked on that page: one "simple", one "scholarly".

I see those guides were last updated in 2011. The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language & Linguistics (published by Brill last year) actually uses a different from either.

Too bad they don't put their transliteration scheme online. It's hidden behind the paywall.

@Davïd Which scheme should I see first?

@Davïd I agree. Thanks! — Now I run to the soda machine.

@PaulVargas :P

@Davïd The shewa there, "transliterate: —, e" :-)

@Susan Ha, well, either silent or <sup>e</sup> the vocalic.

@Davïd Yeah, but my point was just that the scheme doesn't give you any help for choosing.

@Susan The new Cook & Holmstedt biblical Hebrew teaching grammar (from Baker?) doesn't distinguish them at all!

@Susan I suppose they reckon that's the job of the grammars, not the scheme. (?)

@Davïd Writes them as something or nothing, then?

@Susan They ignore 'em all.

@Davïd But that doesn't help Paul!

@Susan Nope. :)

amazon.com/Beginning-Biblical-Hebrew-Grammar-Illustrated/dp/…

@Susan Here's all you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about biblical Hebrew shewa.

@Davïd Most things you can convince me to read. That, no. :-P

@Susan :-o !!!

@Davïd I'll re-consider after some sleep.

@Susan :) I won't hold you to it! You certainly have better things to do with your time. But ... sleep ... sounds like a good idea!

@Davïd Among them...a Hebrew grammar. :-)