Back in March, a wonderful online resource for biblical Greek, zhubert.com, was shut down because of copyright issues with the German Bible Society. I was deeply disappointed because Zack Hubert had put together a great online study-help for reading the Greek New Testament and the Septuagint. It was an interactive library with mouse-over parsing, word searches, vocabulary lists, and more. When it went down, it was a loss of a great tool.
But just this past week I stumbled upon a new resource that is on its way to being just has helpful! The Greek & Hebrew Reader's Bible lacks the Septuagint, but it offers the Greek New Testament (based on Tischendorf's text) and the Hebrew Old Testament. Mouse-over parsing is active for most words (though not all), and there are many ways to filter the amount of information you need to assist you in reading.
As of yet, there isn't a way to perform word searches, or to create custom vocabulary lists, but, much like the Reader's Greek New Testament and Reader's Hebrew Old Testament books, words appearing x-amount of times or less are give beneath the text. The benefit of this website is that the reader can determine that frequency number between 10 and 100 times.
Overall, it looks to be a handy tool. I'm sure it will continue to grow and evolve over time. Three cheers for the Open Source movement!
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