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	Aleppo Codex - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thus the Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization and cantillation, and for masorah ("transmission"), the tradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from generation to generation.
		The Codex was the manuscript used by the rabbi and scholar Maimonides (1135-1204), when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah, Hilkhot Sefer Torah ("the Laws of the Torah Scroll") in his Mishneh Torah.
		The Aleppo Codex is the source for several modern editions of the Hebrew Bible, including "The Jerusalem Crown" (printed in Jerusalem in 2000, with a newly-designed typeface based on the calligraphy of the Codex and based on its page-layout).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Aleppo_codex (452 words)

	Aleppo Codex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus the Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization and cantillation, and for mesorah ("transmission"), the tradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from generation to generation.
		The consonants in the Codex were copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben Buya'a in Palestine in the 10th century.
		The Aleppo Codex is the source for several modern editions of the Hebrew Bible, including the two editions of Mordechai Breuer and "The Jerusalem Crown" (printed in Jerusalem in 2000, with a text based on Breuer's work and a newly-designed typeface based on the calligraphy of the Codex and based on its page-layout).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleppo_codex (825 words)

	The Aleppo Codex
		The Aleppo Codex is an especially valuable witness to the early Masoretic textual tradition associated with Rabbi Aaron Ben Asher, a famous grammarian and scribe of the tenth century.
		In 1948 the synagogue in which the Aleppo Codex was kept was attacked and set on fire by rioters.
		Penkower, "Maimonides and the Aleppo Codex." Textus 9 (1981), pp.
	www.bible-researcher.com /aleppo.html (863 words)

	Aleppo Codex -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thus the Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization and cantillation, and for (additional info and facts about mesorah) mesorah ("transmission"), the tradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from generation to generation.
		The consonants in the (An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll)) Codex were copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben Buya'a in Palestine in the 10th century.
		The Aleppo Codex is the source for several modern editions of the (additional info and facts about Hebrew Bible) Hebrew Bible, including "The Jerusalem Crown" (printed in Jerusalem in 2000, with a newly-designed typeface based on the calligraphy of the Codex and based on its page-layout).
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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Aleppo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Aleppo is also the name of two townships in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
		Aleppo (or Halab, ØÙØ¨ Arabic meaning "Fresh Milk") is a city and province in northern Syria.
		The codex is now housed in Jerusalem and Aleppo's Jewish residents, for various economic and political reasons, have moved abroad.
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	IMJ
		The Aleppo Codex is the earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the Bible.
		The Codex was written in Palestine in the early tenth century, looted and transferred to Egypt at the end of the eleventh century, and deposited with the Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria at the end of the fourteenth century.
		During the riots against Jews and Jewish property in Aleppo in December 1947, the communityâs ancient synagogue was put to the torch and the Codex, which was kept in the synagogue's "Cave of Elijah," suffered damage, so that no more than 295 of the original 487 leaves survived.
	www.imj.org.il /eng/shrine/aleppo.html (262 words)

	The Leningrad Codex
		It is -- along with the other famous biblical codex, the Aleppo Codex -- one of the sources for biblical tradition, for the study of Hebrew Scriptures, and for providing an accurate text for the reading and writing of the Torah and the other books of the Bible.
		Moreover, the Aleppo Codex, housed for many years in the Aleppo Synagogue in Syria, was badly damaged in a fire during anti-Jewish riots in Syria in 1947, and so it is incomplete.
		The Aleppo Codex, now safely stored at the National Hebrew Library in Jerusalem, along with the Leningrad Codex, set the standard for the correct text of the Tanakh, including its vocalization and the musical accents (trop or te'amim) that accompany every word.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/codex1.html (561 words)

	Aleppo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aleppo in 1912, centered on its citadel mound
		During the Crusades, when the invaders pillaged the surrounding countryside, the city's chief judge converted St. Helena's cathedral into a mosque, and in the middle of the 12th century the famous leader Nur al-Din founded the madrasa or religious school that has encompassed the former cathedral.
		Chessplayer and writer Phillip Stamma was born in 1705 in Aleppo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleppo (942 words)

	Jerusalem Crown; Homepage
		Aleppo Codex (PDF 2KB) in the scientific community is also known as keter (crown; arabic taj): 'Crown of Aleppo' or 'Crown of ben Asher'.
		The codex was stolen in the 11th century and brought to Egypt.
		From Cairo the codex was moved to Aleppo in the 14th century where it remained in the Jewish community for more than 500 years.
	www.jerusalem-crown.com (580 words)

	The Crown of Aleppo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Although the codex has generated some extravagant legends concerning its antiquity, such as the one that ascribes its writing to Ezra the Scribe, it was probably written closer to the year 900 c.e.
		As Jewish refugees from Aleppo began to trickle into Israel, they told a different story: The details are still not clear, and at least four different Aleppo Jews (and one larcenous Syrian politician) have been credited with returning to the synagogue and rescuing the burning Keter.
		A concerted campaign of pressure and persuasion was directed at the Aleppo community leaders, by the Israeli government, scholarly institutions, Jewish organization, and by members of the Aleppo Jewish diaspora, culminating in an official letter, issued in 1953, by Sepharadic Chief Rabbi Ouziel.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/000203_Keter.html (1298 words)

	Read about Aleppo Codex at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Aleppo Codex and learn about Aleppo Codex here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In January 1958 the Aleppo Codex was brought to Jerusalem, where it remains in the Shrine of the Book at the
		The Aleppo Codex is the source for several modern editions of the
		The Aleppo Codex Website (http://aleppocodex.org/) - Images of the entire text with optional magnification and a great deal of historical material.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Aleppo_codex (696 words)

	The Central Synagogue in Aleppo, Syria
		Apparently the Aleppo Synagogue included from the very beginning an adjacent courtyard that was used as an open-air synagogue in the summertime.
		The Aleppo Synagogue edifice was divided into three main sections: a central courtyard that separated the western wing, where in modern times the “mustarabi” community used to worship, from the eastern section built at a later time during the 16th century and which served as Beth Midrash and prayer hall of the “Francos”, i.e.
		Keter Aram Tzova (The Aleppo Codex), the most authoritative manuscript of the Masoretic text of the Bible, was kept in the Central Synagogue of Aleppo for some 500 years until 1947.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/Aleppo.asp (418 words)

	Codex - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Christian codex was made of papyrus, more compact and better suited for people on the move than parchment.
		This Christian revolution in media lies at the beginning of the history of the modern book at the juncture between pagan oral culture and one based firmly on written text.
		The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written, and later read when books were arranged upright on shelves.
	www.unipedia.info /Codex.html (588 words)

	Bible2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Another manuscript is the Aleppo Codex, which forms the basis of a new edition of the Hebrew Bible currently being produced at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
		This manuscript was copied in about 925 CE and is therefore earlier than the Leningrad Codex, however some parts of it were lost which means that the Hebrew University project must rely on the Leningrad Codex and other Hebrew manuscripts for their translation.
		Both the Leningrad and Aleppo Codex contain the books of the Hebrew Bible in threefold arrangement that was developed by the Rabbis and you will see it as such in modern Jewish Bibles: The Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings (the specific order of books sometimes varies between manuscripts).
	www.benyosefministries.com /bible2.htm (1157 words)

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		Codex Leningradensis dates to 1008 AD and was based on the work of Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, the son of Moses ben Asher.
		The Aleppo Codex claimed (in a note on its last page) to have been proofread and the vowels and accents written in by Aaron ben Asher himself (the letters of the main text having already been written by Solomon ben Buyaia, a scribe who apparently was a Karaite).
		The Codex (which had never been photocopied because of the restrictions enforced by the Aleppo synagogue) was considered lost in the fire, until 1957, when 294 pages were smuggled into Israel (since then a couple more missing pages have rejoined the surviving manuscript and it might be hoped that still more pages may turn up).
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	The Jews of Aleppo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The foundation for the Great Synagogue in Aleppo is believed to have been constructed by King David's General, Joab ben Seruya (circa 950 BCE), after his conquest of the city (2 Sam 8:3-8); it is still sometimes referred to as Joab's Synagogue.
		Among the reasons for Aleppo’s importance in Jewish learning is a document known as the Aleppo Codex.
		The Aleppo Codex is believed to be the most authoritative, accurate and sacred source document, both for the Biblical text and for the vocalization and cantillation.
	www.jewishgen.org /SefardSIG/AleppoJews.htm (6926 words)

	Judaism: A New Hebrew Bible: the Aleppo Codex - Keter Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Crown: The Bible of the Hebrew - Book ...
		The Codex had a colorful history and for most of the modern period was difficult to gain access to.
		The text of the Leningrad codex suffers from a much larger number of scribal errors than the Aleppo Codex, but is still the next best thing.
		He became fascinated with the Codex and developed a desire to produce a Tanakh that could communicate the same sensibility as the original but was complete and a fine work of printing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_4_51/ai_106730959 (1469 words)

	The Toby Press: The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
		The tale of the family Shepher, their aspirations, feuds and love affairs, is very much fiction, but the real-life history which inspired me to write it is just as full of mystery, intrigue and scholarly adventure, if not quite in the Indiana Jones mould, then perhaps as close as biblical studies ever get to that.
		The Codex was extensively damaged in 1947 when Aleppo's Jewish community was attacked and its synagogue burned down.
		After the destruction of the Aleppo synagogue a number of scholars and rabbis urged the family to try and find the book, but it never occurred to anyone that it was lying there, hidden in an old tin box, a few metres above their heads.
	www.tobypress.com /books/genizah_origins.htm (1363 words)

	The Crown of Jerusalem
		Aaron ben Moshe Ben-Asher was the proofreader and Mesorah authority according to whose instructions the Aleppo Codex (named for the city in Syria where it was kept for many years) was written in the 10th century.
		The Codex was severely damaged in riots against the Jews of Aleppo in 1947, and it is missing about 200 pages, whose fate is unknown - these missing pages include most of the Pentateuch.
		This edition scrupulously follows the Aleppo Codex, according to the method of Rabbi Breuer, and it is more accurate than anything previously published, as evidenced by the fact that the Hebrew University in Jerusalem agreed to lend the edition its name.
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	The True Torah
		The codex (Latin for book), written in 910 in Tiberias, was produced under the direct supervision of the famous scholar Aaron ben Moses Ben-Asher.
		It is believed that sometime in the 13th century, the great-great-grandson of Maimonides brought the book to Aleppo, where it remained in the main synagogue under lock and key.
		In the 10th century, when the codex was written, Bible chapter divisions were not yet created; to refer to another verse one had to quote the verse itself.
	www.chayas.com /allepo.htm (5912 words)

	Articles - Masoretic Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The lack of such discrepancies in the Aleppo Codex is one of the reasons for its importance; the scribe who copied the notes, presumably Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, probably wrote them originally.
		The Talmud (and also Karaite mss.) state that a standard copy of the Hebrew Bible was kept in the court of the Temple in Jerusalem for the benefit of copyists; there were paid correctors of Biblical books among the officers of the Temple (Talmud, tractate Ketubah 106a).
		In spite of the rivalry of Ben Naphtali and the opposition of Saadia Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, Ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible.
	www.beatlesa.com /articles/Masoretic_Text (2594 words)

	Jerusalem Crown
		The Aleppo Codex, now known in Hebrew as Keter Aram Zova, is the oldest and most famous manuscript of the Bible.
		At the end of the 14th century the Keter was taken to Aleppo, Syria (called by the Jews Aram Zova, the biblical name of part of Syria)—this is the origin of the manuscript’s modern name.
		It remained in the keeping of the Aleppo Jewish community until the anti-Jewish riots of December 1947, during which the ancient synagogue where it was kept was broken into and burned.
	www.jerusalem-crown.co.il /website_en/index.asp?page_id=7 (260 words)

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		Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most ancient of these was the Cairo Codex, containing the former and latter prophets, copied in A.D. 895 by Moses Ben Asher, a leader of the Masoretes, in Tiberias, Palestine.
		Two others are the Aleppo Codex (copied by Aaron ben Asher in A.D. 930) and the British Museum Codex (copied in A.D. The Aleppo Codex was complete until it had to be rescued from a burning synagogue in Aleppo, Syria in 1948 and smuggled into Israel.
		It had been copied from a corrected codex prepared by Rabbi Aaron ben Moses ben Asher before A.D. The Reuchlin Codex of the Prophets was copied in A.D. 1105, while the Cairo Geniza fragments (6th- 9th centuries A.D.) contain over 120 Biblical manuscripts discovered during the rebuilding of the synagogue at Cairo, Egypt, in 1890.
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		The Aleppo codex, written in 910 C.E. in Tiberius, is the worlds oldest book version of the Bible, and is being published in a new version.
		The main difference is that the Aleppo codex contains the vowels and vocals of the Bible, which didn't exist at the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
		The Aleppo codex was stolen from Jerusalem, probably by crusaders, and was taken to Cairo.
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	Aleppo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The great synagouge housed the famous Aleppo codex, dated back to the ninth century.
		The codex is now housed in Jerusalem and Aleppo's Jewish residents have moved abroad due to anti-zionism and anti-semitsm http://www.http://www.bible-researcher.com/aleppo.html.
		The city was significantly redesigned after WW II; in 1952 the French architect Andre Gutton had a number of wide new roads cut through the city to allow modern traffic easier passage.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Aleppo.htm (966 words)

	Aleppo codex?
		> > The Aleppo Codex : Provided With Massoretic Notes and Pointed by Aaron Ben > Asher the Codex Considered Authoritive by Maimonides > by Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein (Editor) > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9652235687/zacksbokorama > > > > > > > Don A. Elbourne Jr.
		L, which was used > > as the basis > > of the Biblia Hebraica in the course of our work, with the model codex of > > Ben Asher himself which is kept in the synagogue of the Shephardim in > > Aleppo.
		That has not been possible since the owners of the codex would not > > hear of a photographic copy." > > > > Admittedly this was written in 1937, but I was unaware that the situation > > had changed.
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	Codex - The 1300 Year Pilgrimage of the Codex Amiatinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Codex encourages fair international trade in food and protects consumer health and safety.
		The Aleppo Codex is the earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the In January 1958 the Aleppo Codex was brought to Jerusalem,
		The Codex Sinaiticus was written in Greek in the mid-4th century, the antiquity of this Bible gives it a textual authority equalled by only one other
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