Fonts

Online biblical scholarship requires the use of fonts that can display Greek and Hebrew characters. The most convenient way to display these is through the use of unicode characters. In order to view web pages which use unicode characters, you may need to download and install the proper fonts.

For Greek on this website I have occasionally used the (non-unicode) Symbol font for unaccented Greek. But I have learned that some Windows systems do not display the Greek characters properly in the Symbol font, so I will be using only unicode characters with the Palatino Linotype font in the future. This font is included in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. If your system lacks this font, some of the Greek characters will not be displayed correctly on your screen.

As for the Hebrew -- the fonts included in Windows will display the consonants correctly in the Internet Explorer browser, but they do not position the vowel points correctly, so I recommend that users download and install the SBL Hebrew Font. The Firefox browser does not display the Hebrew vowel points correctly even with this font. In order to see the Hebrew displayed correctly, you must have the SBL font, and use Internet Explorer.

My reference tables of Greek Unicode Characters and Hebrew Unicode Characters are available for those who wish to see how their computers are currently displaying these characters. With Palatino Linotype and SBL Hebrew installed, you should have no problem with the Greek and Hebrew characters.

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