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Published
Scribe Publications, June 2012
ISBN
9781921844805
Format
Softcover, 256 pages
Dimensions
21cm × 13.7cm × 2.4cm

The Aleppo Codex The True Story of Obsession Faith and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by

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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 documents kept secret for 50 years, as well as personal interviews with key figures, Matti Friedman proposes a new theory of what happened when the codex left Aleppo, Syria, in the late 1940s and eventually surfaced in Jerusalem, mysteriously incomplete.

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