The Koren Tanakh Maalot, Magerman Edition, Standard Size (Hebrew and English Edition)

Beautiful tanach I love the pages, translation and everything about it!

My go to Bible for reading and reference.

Even the regular edition uses type that is too small. Splurge on the LARGE one if your eyes aren’t what they should be! Translation is great!!!

Relevant to our time

Husband loves it!

The English print is tiny and the margins are inexplicably huge. Maybe it thinks it's an illuminated manuscript or something. Almost impossible to read. An epic fail by the designer. Very disappointed. Returned for refund.

The 2021 edition of The Koren Tanakh is a new English translation with facing Hebrew. Koren is the name of the company founder and publisher in Israel. Tanakh (or Tanach) is the Jewish acronym for the Hebrew Bible, almost identical to the Christian Old Testament (books arranged a bit differently and other minor differences).This book is totally different from the 1967 book of same name and cover, so be certain to look for publication date and sponsor, the Magerman family, who contributed to make the book affordable.The 1967 edition was in effect the King James Version with modifications to conform with the Hebrew (Masoretic) text and Jewish commentaries. It reads much like KJV. The 2021 edition is elegant modern English, with many books translated by former Chief Rabbi of British Commonwealth Rabbi/Lord Jonathan Sacks, who until he recently passed was a superb writer in his native English. Other books followed his pattern, translated by literary scholars subject to review by traditional Bible scholars.I believe the Hebrew is identical to 1967 edition, which was widely praised by greatest scholars of that time. English and Hebrew fonts are small but sharp and easy to read. Both retain traditional medieval Christian chapter and verse numbers. In addition, the Hebrew side indicates traditional Jewish text breaks, weekly or holiday readings and aliyot. There are thumb tabs identifying each book -- in Hebrew.The new edition standard size is a bit taller than the older one, resulting in 1/4 fewer pages with similar (or same) size font. A "large size" is also sold.One feature similar to both editions is retention of original Hebrew personal and place names most of the time to give more of a feel for the original, except where English/Hellenistic names are too familiar in our culture.There is no commentary. There are a very few footnotes to clarify points or explain difficult translation. Koren publishes other Bibles that include extensive commentary.

This seems to be very comprehensive but despite having excellent vision I'm finding the print is too small to read without struggling. I think that I will need to go to a brick and mortar bookstore like Barnes and Noble to purchase another Tanakh but where I can check the font size before buying.