Need help converting BibleWorks Hebrew font to Unicode

Greetings all you InDesign scholars!
    I am currently busy converting a print version of a book to e-book format. The difficulty I am having has to do with the way Adobe InDesign handles right-to-left fonts. The book on which I am working contains a lot of Hebrew because it is an intensive word-study of the Hebrew Bible.
   When the InDesign document was first created from a Word Document, Adobe took all of the right-to-left Hebrew characters and flipped them around backwards. What a mess! My employer tells me that their solution was to manually go through the book and change every charater to bwhebb, the BibleWorks font. Yikes! This is not a unicode font, so when I export an XML file from InDesign to make an e-book, all of my Hebrew letters come out as garbled Roman letters and symbols. I'm trying to find a macro that will let me convert to a Unicode font so that we can quickly change things to export this file but WITHOUT inverting the letters.
   Are any of you knowledgeable about this kind of problem?
Thank you!

Yes, and ugh. That would have been a fine solution in 1994, but today there is no reason whatsoever to use legacy non-Unicode text encodings for languages like Hebrew. I've never used BibleWorks myself, but it's just like the stuff I face on a daily basis - many people who learned how to key non-Latin scripts in the 90s are reluctant to give up their legacy-encoding fonts, so after a few years of hassling my Lao and Cambodian translators, I just give in and write text conversion scripts for them (or custom keyboards that let them key in their preferred keyboard layout yet generate Unicode text).
I did a bit of digging around for you, and found that there are Word macros already written that will handle the BibleWorks -> Unicode conversion for you. I doubt that every single one of these steps will work for you, but in your shoes I'd
1) Export perfectly-styled text from InDesign to RTF (or go back and get that source Word doc)
2) Open RTF in Word
3) Use a Word macro to convert text from BibleWorks to Unicode (link to Youtube showing particulars including .exe download that is supposed to do the conversion for you)
4) Place RTF back into InDesign and clear overrides (or re-place Word doc and re-format)
If your book isn't already perfectly styled then that won't work for you. A Javascript could be developed to use in InDesign, and if I were a fast scripter I'd hammer it out for you. I am an abysmally slow scripter, or I'd be hammering away instead of posting. But it seems doable to me - if you already had tables showing the BibleScript encoding I might be able to just copy and paste into my scripts for converting similar old fonts to Unicode.

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