Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex
Autor Hayim Tawil, Bernard Schneideren Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2010
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National Jewish Book Award (2010)
Jack B. Dweck.
The history and dramatic rescue of the oldest Hebrew Bible in book form
In Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the survival, against all odds, of the Aleppo Codex—one of the most authoritative and accurate traditional Masoretic texts of the Bible.
Completed circa 939 in Tiberias, the Crown was created by exacting Tiberian scribes who copied the entire Bible into book form, adding annotations, vowel and cantillation marks, and precise commentary. Praised by Torah scholars for centuries after its writing, the Crown passed through history until the 15th century when it was housed in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in the 1947 pogrom, the codex was thought to be destroyed, lost forever.
That is where its great mystery begins. Miraculously, a significant portion of the Crown of Aleppo survived the fire and was smuggled from the synagogue ruins to an unknown location—presumably within the Aleppan Jewish community. Ten years later, the surviving pages of the codex were secretly brought to Israel and finally moved to their current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
This wonderfully rich book contains more than 50 rare photographs and maps, some in full color, including those of the Aleppo Codex, the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, and of the people who played a part in its rescue.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780827608955
ISBN-10: 0827608950
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: More than 50 b&w and color photographs and maps
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: The Jewish Publication Society
Colecția The Jewish Publication Society
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0827608950
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: More than 50 b&w and color photographs and maps
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: The Jewish Publication Society
Colecția The Jewish Publication Society
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
“All in all, although the book is small, it contains a wealth of information that people kissing and otherwise extolling the Torah should know.”—Jewish Eye
“I once heard Elie Wiesel say: ‘Go try to write Jewish fiction when Jewish reality is always more incredible than anything that you can imagine!’ I thought of that line when I read this book . . . for if a novelist had made up this story, it would have been dismissed as impossible to believe.”—Rabbi Jack Reimer for the South Florida Jewish Journal
“The story of how the Dead Sea Scrolls were found . . . is well known. But the remarkable tale of the Crown of Aleppo, itself a simply priceless work, is much less known. This book from the Jewish Publication Society should start to fix that.”—Bill’s Faith Matters Weblog
“Crown of Aleppo amounts to something of a short course in Jewish history in general and Bible scholarship in particular for the non-specialist reader. But it is also a kind of a thriller . . . that is solidly rooted in fact.”—Heritage Florida Jewish News
“This new book not only shares a gripping story of survival and preservation, but it also explains a lot about how our modern Bibles were preserved through the millennia.”—Read the Spirit
Premii
- National Jewish Book Award Finalist, 2010