The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-aleppo-codex-by-matti-friedman/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:07:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png The Aleppo Codex, by Matti Friedman | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-aleppo-codex-by-matti-friedman/ 32 32 The Aleppo Codex, by Matti Friedman https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-aleppo-codex-by-matti-friedman/ Sun, 20 May 2012 12:27:35 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=105802 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 the independent research of The Times of Israel reporter Matti Friedman, 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

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