Transliterating Pointed Hebrew Text

For a suggested romanization schema for Hebrew, take a look at our style guide. There is no single standard for Hebrew transliteration as attested in the following references:

Rules of Transcription from Hebrew Script to Latin Script (Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2007)
International Phonetic Alphabet (2005, as used by Wikipedia)
The SBL Handbook of Style (Society of Biblical Literature, 1999)
Romanization Table for Hebrew and Yiddish (The American Library Association/Library of Congress, 1997)
Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible with their Renderings (James Strong, 1890)
Coding for Transliteration of Hebrew (Michigan-Claremont, 1984)

Part of our project of digitizing Jewish liturgy is to provide a resource to convert the consonants and vowels of Hebrew into any other script. Ultimately we hope to make this a standard feature of our web application.

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