Book excerpt: The Koren Jerusalem Bible (leather bound) is a bilingual Hebrew-English Tanach. The English was translated by Harold Fisch, and is based on the Friedlander's 1881 Jewish Family Bible, corrected, modernized and revised. The Jerusalem Bible incorporates some unique features: The paragraphing of the English translation parallels the division of the parshiyot in the Hebrew version on the facing page. Chapter and verse numbers are noted only in the margin (as in the hebrew version). The names of people and places are in the translation are transliterations of the Hebrew names. All transliterated names are indexed at the end of the book in alphabetical order, with their eqivalent Hellenistic forms. The transliteration adopted is based on the recommendations of the Hebrew Language Academy of Israel.