The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible (repost)
The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman
Algonquin Books | 2012 | ISBN: 1616200405 | English | 320 pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB
Algonquin Books | 2012 | ISBN: 1616200405 | English | 320 pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a thrilling story about a book that meant everything. This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text—the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex—from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel. Based on Matti Friedman’s independent research, documents kept secret for fifty years, and personal interviews with key players, the book proposes a new theory of what happened when the codex left Aleppo, Syria, in the late 1940s and eventually surfaced in Jerusalem, mysteriously incomplete.