The Aleppo Codex : the true story of obsession, faith, and the pursuit of an ancient Bible
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Book
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NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Scribe Publications, Australia
Subject
Jews -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Israel -- History.; Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew. Aleppo Codex
Abstract
This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text-the tenth-century annotated bible know as the Aleppo Codex-from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel. Based on documents kept secret for 50 years, as well as personal interviews with key figures, Matti Friedman proposes a new theory of what happened when the codex left Aleppo, Syria, in the late 1940s and eventually surfaced in Jerusalem, mysteriously incomplete.
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