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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Aleppo Codex

Text of the Aleppo Codex (Courtesy of Matti Friedman)
February 10, 2016, 3:56 am
UNESCO adds Aleppo Codex to registry of world treasures
World’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible recognized in International Memory of the World Register
By JTA
In this October 5, 2014, photo, a library official shows a Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
December 8, 2014, 8:12 pm
Bibles from Syria could spark ownership dispute
Israel’s national library seeks custodianship over eight ancient manuscripts smuggled out of Damascus by the Mossad
By Daniel Estrin
Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)
January 22, 2014, 9:32 am
Friedman accepts ‘Aleppo Codex’ prize
Former Times of Israel writer receives $100,000 in ceremony at the King David Hotel, organized by the Jewish Book Council
By Jessica Steinberg
Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)
November 7, 2013, 10:55 pm
TOI’s Matti Friedman wins prestigious literary award
‘The Aleppo Codex,’ a true-life detective story about how the ancient Biblical manuscript was smuggled out of Syria, garners $100,000 Rohr Prize
By ToI Staff
Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)
October 8, 2013, 1:40 am
TOI’s Matti Friedman a finalist for Sami Rohr Prize
‘The Aleppo Codex’ is one of five books on the short list for $100,000 literary award for non-fiction
By ToI Staff and JTA
Kal-El is taken to the authorities. (photo credit: Warner Brothers)
June 14, 2013, 2:27 pm
‘Man of Steel’ no longer Man of Shtetl?
Does the new Superman movie, opening Friday in the US and next week in Israel, assimilate away all of its historically Jewish connotations?
By Jordan Hoffman
Mauro Perani, a professor of Hebrew in the university's cultural heritage department, was updating the library's Hebrew manuscript catalogue when he stumbled upon the scroll in February. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna)
May 30, 2013, 10:11 am
Hebrew profs weigh in on ‘oldest Torah’
12th-century scroll was discovered in an Italian university library after being mistakenly catalogued in 1889
By Nicole Winfield
Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)
May 2, 2013, 9:28 pm
‘Aleppo Codex’ wins Canadian book award
Times of Israel reporter’s investigation recognized in history category
By ToI Staff
Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)
January 28, 2013, 6:11 pm
‘The Aleppo Codex’ wins top Jewish literature prize
Times of Israel’s Matti Friedman takes prestigious award for story of obsession and faith in the pursuit of an ancient manuscript
By Philip Podolsky
The courtyard of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, as depicted in a detailed model at the Beit Hatfutsot museum in Tel Aviv (Courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot, Museum of the Jewish People)
October 16, 2012, 4:28 pm
Amid Aleppo violence, fate unknown for one of Judaism’s greatest buildings
No information has yet emerged about the condition of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, once the Jewish world’s oldest functioning house of prayer
By Matti Friedman
Biblical scholar Professor Menachem Cohen, reading from a book, at the Bar Ilan University library, outside Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
August 8, 2012, 6:23 pm
Israeli scholar completes ‘definitive’ version of the Bible
In correcting some 1,500 inaccuracies, Prof. Menachem Cohen, 84, has carried out the first major textual overhaul in 500 years
By Aron Heller
Illustrative: Torah calligraphy by Hanna Klebansky. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
July 26, 2012, 3:06 am
Missing Hebrew manuscript is focus of growing legal battle
The saga of a 15th-century Bible that has vanished from a Jerusalem institute is pitting a New York family against official arms of the Israeli government
By Matti Friedman
May 20, 2012, 3:27 pm
The Aleppo Codex, by Matti Friedman
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
May 10, 2012, 3:53 pm
Four years on the trail of the codex
Matti Friedman, author of ‘The Aleppo Codex,’ explains how he got drawn into a search for the truth about the most revered version of the Hebrew Bible
By Jessica Steinberg
The Aleppo Codex, the manuscript at the heart of Matti Friedman's award-winning novel, is arguably Judaism's most important book
May 10, 2012, 3:52 pm
Revealed: The scandalous history of Judaism’s most precious book
Theft, espionage, corruption and a cover-up lasting decades — a new book by a Times of Israel reporter exposes the extraordinary saga of the uniquely revered, 1,100-year-old Aleppo Codex
By ToI Staff
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