diff -ur xkb.orig/rules/base.lst xkb/rules/base.lst
--- xkb.orig/rules/base.lst	2006-07-20 01:42:45.000000000 +0200
+++ xkb/rules/base.lst	2006-11-13 04:09:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@
   lyx             il: lyx
   si1452          il: si1452
   phonetic        il: Phonetic
+  biblical        il: Biblical Hebrew (Tiro)
   nodeadkeys      it: Eliminate dead keys
   ruskaz          kz: Russian with Kazakh
   kazrus          kz: Kazakh with Russian
diff -ur xkb.orig/rules/base.xml xkb/rules/base.xml
--- xkb.orig/rules/base.xml	2006-07-20 01:42:45.000000000 +0200
+++ xkb/rules/base.xml	2006-11-13 04:11:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -6229,6 +6229,12 @@
             <description xml:lang="zh_TW">音標</description>
           </configItem>
         </variant>
+        <variant>
+          <configItem>
+            <name>biblical</name>
+            <description>Biblical Hebrew (Tiro)</description>
+          </configItem>
+        </variant>
       </variantList>
     </layout>
     <layout>
@@ -10468,4 +10474,4 @@
       </option>
     </group>
   </optionList>
-</xkbConfigRegistry>
\ No newline at end of file
+</xkbConfigRegistry>
diff -ur xkb.orig/symbols/il xkb/symbols/il
--- xkb.orig/symbols/il	2006-10-21 09:55:54.000000000 +0200
+++ xkb/symbols/il	2006-11-13 05:25:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+// 2006/11/13: added variant 'biblical' based on 'Biblical Hebrew (Tiro)'
+// 
 // $XKeyboardConfig: xkbdesc/symbols/il,v 1.9 2005/08/01 22:11:07 svu Exp $
-
+//
 // based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/il' file
 //
 // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/il,v 1.3 2003/01/07 02:03:44 dawes Exp $
@@ -193,4 +195,79 @@
     key <LatM> {	[ hebrew_mem, hebrew_finalmem	]	};
 };
 
+// The 'Biblical Hebrew' keyboard layout as defined by Tiro for use with the
+// 'SBL Hebrew' font was added 2006.11.13 by Sebastian J. Bronner
+// <waschtl@sbronner.com>.  Its primary features (as compared to the lyx layout)
+// are that the consonants are in the Israeli standard positions, that a great
+// multitude of glyphs can be input directly from the keyboard, and that it is
+// the closest thing to a standard layout a theologian can hope for.
+// Documentation (including printable keyboard tables), SBL Hebrew font, and
+// keyboard layout for Windows are available at
+// http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/Resources_BiblicalFonts.aspx.
+//
+// It is of interest that the 'basic' layout defined first in this file (as
+// ships with x.org disagrees in the non-consonant characters that the Tiro-
+// layout claims to be the Israeli standard.  Tiros apparent diligence in the
+// PDF-documentation accompanying the keyboard-layout-files lead me to put
+// greater stock in their claim than in this file.  Therefore, the 'biblical'
+// layout below does not include 'il(basic)' but redoes the _whole_ thing from
+// scratch.
+
+partial alphanumeric_keys 
+xkb_symbols "biblical" {
+	name[Group1]= "Israel - Biblical Hebrew (Tiro)";
+	key.type = "FOUR_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC";
+
+	key <TLDE> { [ U05C3, U05AE, semicolon, asciitilde ] };
+	key <AE01> { [ 1,     U05A9, VoidSymbol, exclam ] };
+	key <AE02> { [ 2,     U0599, VoidSymbol, at ] };
+	key <AE03> { [ 3,     U0592, VoidSymbol, numbersign ] };
+	key <AE04> { [ 4,     U05AF, NewSheqelSign, dollar ] };
+	key <AE05> { [ 5,     VoidSymbol, U200D, percent ] };
+	key <AE06> { [ 6,     U05B9, U200C, asciicircum ] };
+	key <AE07> { [ 7,     U05BF, U034F, ampersand ] };
+	key <AE08> { [ 8,     U05C2, U200E, asterisk ] };
+	key <AE09> { [ 9,     U05C1, U200F, parenright ] };
+	key <AE10> { [ 0,     U059D, U25CC, parenleft ] };
+	key <AE11> { [ U05BE, U05A0, minus, underscore ] };
+	key <AE12> { [ equal, U05BC, VoidSymbol, plus ] };
+
+	key <AD01> { [ U0307, U05C4, U0308, slash ] };
+	key <AD02> { [ U05F3, U05AC, U05F4, apostrophe ] };
+	key <AD03> { [ hebrew_qoph, U05AB, U20AC ] };
+	key <AD04> { [ hebrew_resh, U059F ] };
+	key <AD05> { [ hebrew_aleph, U0593 ] };
+	key <AD06> { [ hebrew_tet, U059E ] };
+	key <AD07> { [ hebrew_waw, U059C, U05F0 ] };
+	key <AD08> { [ hebrew_finalnun, U05A1 ] };
+	key <AD09> { [ hebrew_finalmem, U0595 ] };
+	key <AD10> { [ hebrew_pe, U0594 ] };
+	key <AD11> { [ bracketright, U0597, VoidSymbol, braceright ] };
+	key <AD12> { [ bracketleft, U0598, VoidSymbol, braceleft ] };
+	key <BKSL> { [ U05C0, U05A8, backslash, bar ] };
+
+	key <AC01> { [ hebrew_shin, U05BD ] };
+	key <AC02> { [ hebrew_dalet, U05B0 ] };
+	key <AC03> { [ hebrew_gimel, U05BB ] };
+	key <AC04> { [ hebrew_kaph, U05B4 ] };
+	key <AC05> { [ hebrew_ayin, U05B1 ] };
+	key <AC06> { [ hebrew_yod, U05B6, U05F2 ] };
+	key <AC07> { [ hebrew_chet, U05B5, U05F1 ] };
+	key <AC08> { [ hebrew_lamed, U05B3 ] };
+	key <AC09> { [ hebrew_finalkaph, U05B8, U05C7 ] };
+	key <AC10> { [ hebrew_finalpe, U05B2, VoidSymbol, colon ] };
+	key <AC11> { [ U059a, U05B7, comma, quotedbl ] };
+
+	key <AB01> { [ hebrew_zain, U05C5 ] };
+	key <AB02> { [ hebrew_samech, U05A4 ] };
+	key <AB03> { [ hebrew_bet, U05AA, U05A2 ] };
+	key <AB04> { [ hebrew_he, U05A6 ] };
+	key <AB05> { [ hebrew_nun, U05A5, U05C6 ] };
+	key <AB06> { [ hebrew_mem, U05A7 ] };
+	key <AB07> { [ hebrew_zade, U059B ] };
+	key <AB08> { [ hebrew_taw, U0591, VoidSymbol, greater ] };
+	key <AB09> { [ hebrew_finalzade, U0596, VoidSymbol, less ] };
+	key <AB10> { [ U05AD, U05A3, period, question ] };
 
+	key <SPCE> { [ space, space, thinspace, nobreakspace ] };
+};
diff -ur xkb.orig/symbols.dir xkb/symbols.dir
--- xkb.orig/symbols.dir	2006-07-20 01:42:47.000000000 +0200
+++ xkb/symbols.dir	2006-11-13 04:15:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
 --p----- a------- il(lyx)
 --p----- a------- il(si1452)
 --p----- a------- il(phonetic)
+--p----- a------- il(biblical)
 -dp----- a------- in(deva)
 --p----- a------- in(ben)
 -------- -------- in(ben_probhat)