Koren Jerusalem Bible

An important Israeli-produced Hebrew–English Tanakh whose English text is shaped for Jewish use, this edition presents the Hebrew Bible alongside a facing English rendering. Its source languages are Hebrew together with an English predecessor: the Koren Hebrew text is set beside an English version drawn substantially from the earlier tradition of Jewish English translation, with the Friedländer Jewish Family Bible tradition serving as its predecessor and base translation. The English was revised and modernized by Harold Fisch rather than translated entirely anew, so the work is best categorized as a substantial revision within the stream of Jewish English translation rather than an independent one. Its translation philosophy is formal and literary, following the wording and structure of the Hebrew closely. Produced in the modern State of Israel, it belongs to a long line of Jewish English Bibles prepared for synagogue, study, and household use, and it has circulated widely in that tradition.