PBB: Preliminary and Interim Report of the Hebrew OT Text Project (HOTTP)

Rick Brannan
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edited November 21 in English Forum

The United Bible Societies has started to release some of their data (no, not Bibles) under an open license (CC-BY-SA). (Here's the github repo where they release stuff)

One interesting item they released is the (IIRC) five-volume in print "Preliminary and Interim Report of the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project." This is essentially a textual commentary on the Hebrew Bible.

Since it's open, and since I thought it would be nice to have in my personal version of Logos, I wrote a script to turn the HOTTP XML into a Logos-PBB-compliant word document (*.docx). UBS has released both English and French, but I've only converted the English. 

It's all on my github account, you can read more here: https://github.com/RickBrannan/hottp-pbb // read the whole README for instructions on how to download the necessary PBB files if you don't speak github and don't want to worry about code and stuff.

The resulting PBB isn't perfect (I only spent a couple of hours on it from start to in-Logos and there's far more that could be done to make it better) but it is in "good enough" status so I thought I'd mention it here for those interested. 

It worked just fine on my account; there are some warnings and stuff when it builds but they should all be OK to ignore.

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