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9780827608955

Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex

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  • ISBN13:

    9780827608955

  • ISBN10:

    0827608950

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-05-12
  • Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

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The dramatic story of the oldest Hebrew Bible in book form The Crown of Aleppo, also known as the Aleppo Codex, is one of the most perfect examples of the traditional Masoretic text of the Bible. Completed circa 930 C.E. in Tiberias by prominent scribes who wrote the lettering and added vowel and cantillation marks, the codex then passed through history until it came to rest at the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in a pogrom, the codex was thought to be lost. That is where its great mystery begins. How it survived by being smuggled from the synagogue to the homes of Jewish dignitaries in Syria, and finally to its current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, is the story of this book. Contains maps and photographs of the Aleppo Codex, the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, and key dignitaries associated with the rescue of the codex and its relocation to Israel. These images appear together for the first time in this volume.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
The Catastrophe of 1947p. 3
Origins of the Crown and Its Significancep. 15
Development of the Codexp. 15
Tiberiasp. 15
The Development of Notational Systems and the Advent of the Tiberian Masoretesp. 18
The Writing of the Crownp. 23
Determining the Crown's Authorshipp. 25
Mainmonides and the Crownp. 27
The Karaite Questionp. 33
The Story of Abraham Firkovichp. 37
The Significance of the Crownp. 42
The Crown's History from 11th-Century Jerusalem to 20th-Century Aleppop. 47
The Crown in Jerusalemp. 47
The Crown in Fostatp. 49
Maimonides' Descendants and the Crown's Transfer to Aleppop. 50
Syriap. 54
Aleppop. 54
The Jewish Community of Aleppop. 56
The Great Synagoguep. 61
Aleppan Traditions Regarding the Crownp. 63
Gathering Storm Cloudsp. 65
The Quest to Save the Crownp. 71
Efforts to Save the Crown before the 1947 Pogromp. 71
The Crown's Whereabouts in the Pogrom's Immediate Aftermathp. 75
The Search for the Crownp. 85
Murad Faham, Rescuer of the Crownp. 88
Faham and the Fate of the Crownp. 91
The Disputed Crown and Its Restorationp. 101
The Crown Arrives in Israelp. 101
The Crown Gains a Permanent Homep. 106
The Condition of the Crown before the 1947 Pogromp. 109
The Current Condition of the Crownp. 110
The Order of the Books in the Crownp. 113
The Missing Sectionsp. 114
Extant Crown Pages from Photographs and a Fragmentp. 120
Recovery and Reconstruction of the Textp. 122
Epilogue: The Future of the Crownp. 128
The Fate of the Missing Pagesp. 128
A Mandate to Restore the Crownp. 130
Endnotesp. 141
Glossaryp. 163
Bibliographyp. 175
Indexp. 187
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