New Aramaic Resources for BibleWorks 8

[Glenn Weaver]

Aramaic Paradigms and Reymond, Introductory Lessons in Aramaic should appear under Resources | Aramaic.

The sound files will be posted shortly after we work out a technical difficulty with the updater related to the sound files installation. The sound files were posted briefly yesterday, but they did not install correctly, so we removed them from the download list.

[Ken Neighoff]

My other Aramaic resource is Title PageWritings of William Norton


A Translation, in English Daily Used, of the Peshito-Syriac Text, and of the Received Greek Text of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John



With an Introduction, on the Peshito-Syriac Text, and the Revised Greek Text of 1881.

[ISalzman]

Aramaic Paradigms and Reymond, Introductory Lessons in Aramaic should appear under Resources | Aramaic.

Interesting. On the 'Resources' Menu at the top of the program window, the two resources are, indeed, listed under 'Aramaic.' However, on the 'Resources' tab in the 'Analysis Window,' 'Reymond, Introductory Lessons in Aramaic' is listed on the References sub-tab, under 'English' resources. And, 'BibleWorks, Aramaic Paradigms' is listed on the Grammar sub-tab, in the 'Hebrew' section. Not that it matters all that much ultimately. But they are labeled differently on the Resource Menu at the top of the BW program window than they are on the Resource Tab in the Analysis Window.

[ISalzman]

My other Aramaic resource is Title PageWritings of William Norton


A Translation, in English Daily Used, of the Peshito-Syriac Text, and of the Received Greek Text of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John



With an Introduction, on the Peshito-Syriac Text, and the Revised Greek Text of 1881.

Thanks Ken! Ah yes, William Norton, otherwise famous for his Norton Anti-Virus software. Not!

[Ben Spackman]

Hooray for Aramaic, the too-oft second class Semitic citizen of the Biblical studies world

[ISalzman]

Hooray for Aramaic, the too-oft second class Semitic citizen of the Biblical studies world

And, hurray for Brooklyn! Some of the best corned beef in the world can be had there!

[Adamsen]

We are pleased to announce new Aramaic resources available for BibleWorks 8. It is available through the BibleWorks 8 updater under Help | BibleWorks on the Internet | Check for updates.

Thank you very much. This is great.

However, I cannot get the Aramaic scripts to work. BW8 also keeps telling me that it is unable to create the Greek font used for display. I think I have followed the instructions in this entry: "Unable to create font bwgrkl point size 12."

I use Win7 RC1.

Is there any other solution than continuing to reinstall the fonts?

[Glenn Weaver]

NOTE: The sound files have now been posted. After you download the exe version 12a or later, the sound files update is available.

[ISalzman]

NOTE: The sound files have now been posted. After you download the exe version 12a or later, the sound files update is available.

Thanks Glenn. I ran the update. When I open up the resource (Aramaic Paradigms), however, and click on the speaker icon, I get only error messages saying that the file was not found. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Irving Salzman

[Glenn Weaver]

Hi Irving,

Did you download the sound files, or only the Aramaic Additions? If you only downloaded the additions, then you do not yet have the sound files.

In order to see the sound files download (a large download, about 65 megs), you must first download the exe update number 12a. After the exe is updated, then running the updater will show the sound files download.