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The Mystery of the Missing Pages of the Aleppo Codex
The world’s oldest and most authoritative copy of the Hebrew Bible reposed for more than half a millennium in a synagogue in Aleppo, Syria, before it was desecrated in riots that followed the United Nations vote in 1947 calling for a Jewish...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2015
The Shattered Crown
The Aleppo Codex, 60 Years After the Riots
The Aleppo Codex, the most revered copy of the Hebrew Bible, survived intact for more than a millennium before it was ripped apart, burnt, stolen, secreted and, finally, rescued. On November 29, 1947, the very day that Hebrew University...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2008