Help with script

[Steve G.]

I am looking for someone to mentor me, help me, or work with me on the
following, non-marketable project. This is NOT a job offer, but a request
for help. If any money comes out of the project, I will gladly share it with
people who help me, but I doubt anything will.

So here is a description of what I want to accomplish:

Many years ago, I resolved to read the bible (old testament) in its
entirety, in Hebrew/Spanish. I purchased a dual language bible, La Biblia,
and start the journey. The goal was to learn Spanish, and also become
acquainted with the old text, only bits and pieces of which are taught in
any school, even a religious one.

Carrying a bilingual bible is literally a heavy burden, scares away the
chicks and everyone else except fundamentalists and weirdos, which did not
help. I got stuck somewhere in the second book when too many names stumped
me. I still read a page now and then, but at this rate it will take me 543
years to finish.

Fast forward 20 years, we now have a tool perfect for reading one line at a
time - the new Kindle! So I am thinking why not create an electronic version
of the same document - 2 bilingual
bibles, Hebrew-Spanish and Spanish-Hebrew, verse by verse. Maybe even with
punctuation marks, though that is not a necessity.

I can find copyright free web pages. In Spanish I can get the whole bible as
a single file. In Hebrew most sites are arranged book by book, but that is
fairly easy to combine into a single file manually. I would like to write a
script, preferably in python, that would read the files, parse them into a
series of sentences, and recombine them as a bilingual file, one verse
following the other. Hebrew/Spanish and Spanish/Hebrew.

I am not a programmer, but I can probably create a script with guidance.
Working with a knowledgeable individual would eliminate enough of the
learning curve for me to make it a reality. If I were to do it from scratch,
it will be so low on my priorities list that it would take years to get to
it. If we get this done, I would post it somewhere as a freely available
document, of course.

As for the commercial part - if we get this text processed, I will
considering offering it as a Kindle book on Amazon, and also maybe
converting it to PDF. As far as I know there is nothing like that on the
market, though someone is selling dual language bibles in English and a
number of other languages on Amazon.

Anyone interested in helping with the project, please let me know.

Z.
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