The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible is a 2012 book by Matti Friedman published by Algonquin.
First edition
The book tells the story of how the Aleppo codex, one of the world's oldest extant Bibles, was saved from destruction during the 1947 Aleppo pogrom, how it was smuggled into Israel, and what became of the missing pages.[1] The Wall Street Journal calls Friedman's book "a detective thriller," noting that, "not everything about the codex is as it seems."[2]
^Bergman, Ronen (25 July 2012). "A High Holy Whodunit". New York Times. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
^Balint, Benjamin (12 June 2013). "Rival Owners, Sacred Text (book review)". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
TheAleppoCodex (Hebrew: כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא, romanized: Keṯer ʾĂrām-Ṣōḇāʾ, lit. 'Crown of Aleppo') is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible...
TheAleppoCodex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible is a 2012 book by Matti Friedman published by Algonquin. The book...
serves as a primary source for the recovery of details in the missing parts of theAleppoCodex. The Leningrad Codex (a codex is a handwritten book bound...
century CE. It is considered as old as theAleppoCodex and a century older than the Leningrad Codex (from 1008 CE), the earliest known complete Hebrew Bible...
had disappeared from thecodex during the 1947 Anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo when the Central Synagogue of Aleppo, where thecodex was housed, was set on...
the 9th century. The oldest-known complete copy, the Leningrad Codex, dates from the early 11th century. TheAleppoCodex, once the oldest-known complete...
Maimonides based his division of the parashot for the Torah on theAleppoCodex. The division of parashot for the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim was never...
cantillation notes) to theAleppoCodex, correcting its letter-text according to the Masoretic Text. The value of this work is that the grammatical rules presented...
manuscripts of Yemenite origin—and theAleppoCodex sides with the Yemenite manuscripts on those differences. TheAleppoCodex conforms consistently to Maimonides's...
access to theCodex, but would not permit it to be reproduced photographically or otherwise. TheCodex remained in the keeping of theAleppo Jewish community...
the standardized Hebrew Bible of today. TheAleppoCodex is no longer the oldest complete manuscript because, during riots in 1947, theAleppoCodex was...
tradition, which includes theCodex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), AleppoCodex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008)...
in the early 20th century. It is one of the oldest extant Bible codices, ranking along with theAleppoCodex and Leningrad Codex. In many places, the Damascus...
Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes theCodex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), AleppoCodex (10th century;...
with various topics, including "the section about the Biblical Codex" (שער כתר תורה), about the famous AleppoCodex. It is this section which has made...
was considered the main synagogue of the Syrian Jewish community. The synagogue is noted as being the location where theAleppocodex was housed for over...
was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), and especially of the text of theAleppoCodex. His first cousin was the historian also...
division of the parashot for the Torah on the Masoretic text of theAleppoCodex. In the table, a portion that may be combined with the following portion...
(916), AleppoCodex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last...
tradition, which includes theCodex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), AleppoCodex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008)...
Prophets (916), AleppoCodex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls...
Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes theCodex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), AleppoCodex (10th century)...
includes Codex Cairensis (895 CE), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), AleppoCodex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). There is also...
shva (אְ) as /ɛ̆/). The phonology of Tiberian Hebrew can be gleaned from the collation of various sources: TheAleppoCodex of the Hebrew Bible and ancient...
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