The Aleppo Codex
A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
By Matti Friedman
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Hardcover, 9781616200404, 298pp.)
Publication Date: May 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc
Categories: Middle East - Israel, Jewish - General, Judaism - History
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Description
This true detective story unveils the journey of a 10th-century bible known as the Aleppo Codex. Using his independent research, Friedman proposes a new theory of what happened when the codex left Syria in the 1940s and surfaced in Jerusalem, mysteriously incomplete.
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