What is it?

Shibboleth is a tool for typing Unicode text in ancient scripts. It was designed to help people unfamiliar with a script easily enter the correct characters, and then copy text to the clipboard in Unicode or another format.

While a keyboard layout is provided for several scripts, the emphasis is on helping the user recognize and select the proper characters. To that end, user input is shown in both typed and rendered format, with multiple font options, and all of the characters for each script are selectable from a well organized palette on the right side of the application window.

As an internal tool, Shibboleth is designed around our specific needs. But we have found it useful in so many situations that we wanted to share it with others. Shibboleth is licensed for personal, non-commercial use, and is offered with no warranty and no support.

Download your free copy!

Shibboleth requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 to be installed on Windows XP. If you do not have it installed, or do not know if you have it installed, use this link to run the framework setup before using the Download button to install Shibboleth.		Microsoft Windows Vista users can use the download button below.

An Important Note for Firefox Users: Shibboleth is a ClickOnce application. To launch it from Firefox, you must install the FFClickOnce add-on or use the IE Tab add-on to view the page and click the link.

Help/FAQ's

The Shibboleth User Manual is available here.

Shibboleth is a tool for typing Unicode text in ancient scripts. It has embedded versions of all the necessary fonts, but you may wish to download the fonts for use in other applications. Users of Logos Bible Software may already have all of these fonts.

The Meltho Syriac Fonts (especially Serto Jerusalem)
East Syriac Adiabene (originally one of the Meltho fonts, but not available in the current distribution of that package as this font was thought to be lost)
Charis SIL
Ezra SIL
Abyssinica SIL
Gentium and GenitumAlt
Scheherazade
New Athena Unicode
SBL Hebrew
BibliaLS
Zebul Open
Musnad Sabaic
Sinaiticus

Here’s some help....

Comments and questions can be directed to shibboleth@logos.com, but we cannot promise an immediate response.

Last Updated: 12/26/2007