An English translation with notes of the Amarna letters is provided. Scanlin’s The Dead Sea Scrolls and Modern Translations of the Old Testament (Wheaton, ILL: Tyndale House, 1993) is included and contains an annotated catalogue of all known Dead Sea manuscripts as well as an annotated catalogue of textual variants used in recent English translations.
Texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls are not provided either in Hebrew or translation, although H. Other related original language texts are not provided, although I have been informed that the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) will be able to be integrated in the future. The lack of a critical apparatus is to be particularly regretted in the case of BHS, which is not an edited text but the reproduction of a particular codex (Leningradensis). None of the texts includes a critical apparatus, although the ketiv/qere readings of the Hebrew text appear in pop-up windows. These Greek and Hebrew editions are all morphologically tagged, enabling instant parsing in pop-up windows.
The OLL package offers, in addition to a good variety of English language Bible translations, a number of Greek editions of the New Testament, including the 27th edition of Nestle/Aland, Rahlfs’ edition of the Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, and the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS). 1 This software, in conjunction with further reference material soon to be made available, may well, despite appearances, be of interest to classicists.
THEOLOGICAL WORDBOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SEARCHED SOFTWARE
In the following paragraphs comment will be made upon both the reference material provided in the OLL as well as the capabilities of the software provided for accessing and using the data. The Libronix system enables the user to add reference works and other books to the database from a continually expanding supply of material from a range of publishers. The Original Languages Library (henceforth OLL) is a collection of e-books “focused on academic and language reference” integrated into a powerful software package (“Libronix”) for the purpose of aiding study of the Bible.
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