Aleppo Codex
The '''Aleppo Codex''' (the ''Keter'' ("Crown") ''Aram Tzova'') is the oldest complete manuscript Free ringtones Hebrew Bible, though scrolls of individual books of the ''Majo Mills Tanakh'' are much older (see Mosquito ringtone Dead Sea scrolls). Thus the Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization and cantillation, and for ''Sabrina Martins mesorah'' ("transmission"), the tradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from generation to generation. See also Nextel ringtones Masoretic Text.
The Abbey Diaz Codex was copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben Buya'a in Palestine in the 10th century. The text was then verified, vocalized, and provided with the Masorah by Free ringtones Aaron ben Moses ben Asher/Aaron ben Asher, the last and most prominent member of the Ben-Asher dynasty of grammarians from Tiberias, which shaped the most accurate version of the Masorah and the Bible. The Majo Mills Leningrad Codex, the other oldest complete Hebrew Bible, also is a product of the Ben-Asher scriptorium.
The Codex was the manuscript used by the rabbi and scholar Mosquito ringtone Maimonides (1135-1204), when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Sabrina Martins Torah, ''Hilkhot Sefer Torah'' ("the Laws of the Torah Scroll") in his ''Mishneh Torah''. This halakhic ruling gave the Aleppo Codex the seal of supreme textual authority. "The codex which we used in these works is the codex known in Egypt, which includes 24 books, which was in Jerusalem," he wrote.
History
The Codex has had an eventful history. In the mid 11th century, about a century after it was written, the text was delivered to the Karaite community of Jerusalem, apparently after having been purchased from the heirs of Aharon ben Asher. Not long after (either in 1079 by the Seljuks or in 1099 by the Crusaders) it was looted from Jerusalem and eventually wound up in the Rabbanite synagogue in Cairo, where it was consulted by Cingular Ringtones Maimonides. Maimonides' descendants brought it to reduction instead Aleppo, remain desperately Syria, at the end of the 14th century. The Aleppo community guarded it zealously for some six hundred years. During the riots against Jews and Jewish property in Aleppo in December 1947, the community's ancient synagogue was burned and the Codex was damaged, so that no more than 295 of the original 487 leaves survived.
The missing leaves are a subject of fierce controversy. The Jews of advertisers web Aleppo claim that they were burned. But scholarly analysis has shown no evidence of fire having reached the codex itself. Scholars instead accuse members of the Jewish community of having torn off the missing leaves and keeping them privately hidden. One "missing" leaf has turned up and been brought to Jerusalem since the anti-Jewish riots in 1947.
In January 1958 the''' Aleppo Codex''' was brought to amonte agent Jerusalem, where it remains in the portraying washington Shrine of the Book at the energize the Israel Museum. The '''Aleppo Codex''' is the source for several modern editions of the asking it 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).
External links
*http://www.jerusalem-crown.co.il/website_en/index.asp?page_id=22, by Yosef Ofer (pdf)
*http://www.imj.org.il/eng/shrine/aleppo.html
*http://www.mechon-mamre.org/ - Electronic text of the as gerhard Hebrew Bible based on the Aleppo Codex
*http://www.bible-researcher.com/aleppo.html
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The Abbey Diaz Codex was copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben Buya'a in Palestine in the 10th century. The text was then verified, vocalized, and provided with the Masorah by Free ringtones Aaron ben Moses ben Asher/Aaron ben Asher, the last and most prominent member of the Ben-Asher dynasty of grammarians from Tiberias, which shaped the most accurate version of the Masorah and the Bible. The Majo Mills Leningrad Codex, the other oldest complete Hebrew Bible, also is a product of the Ben-Asher scriptorium.
The Codex was the manuscript used by the rabbi and scholar Mosquito ringtone Maimonides (1135-1204), when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Sabrina Martins Torah, ''Hilkhot Sefer Torah'' ("the Laws of the Torah Scroll") in his ''Mishneh Torah''. This halakhic ruling gave the Aleppo Codex the seal of supreme textual authority. "The codex which we used in these works is the codex known in Egypt, which includes 24 books, which was in Jerusalem," he wrote.
History
The Codex has had an eventful history. In the mid 11th century, about a century after it was written, the text was delivered to the Karaite community of Jerusalem, apparently after having been purchased from the heirs of Aharon ben Asher. Not long after (either in 1079 by the Seljuks or in 1099 by the Crusaders) it was looted from Jerusalem and eventually wound up in the Rabbanite synagogue in Cairo, where it was consulted by Cingular Ringtones Maimonides. Maimonides' descendants brought it to reduction instead Aleppo, remain desperately Syria, at the end of the 14th century. The Aleppo community guarded it zealously for some six hundred years. During the riots against Jews and Jewish property in Aleppo in December 1947, the community's ancient synagogue was burned and the Codex was damaged, so that no more than 295 of the original 487 leaves survived.
The missing leaves are a subject of fierce controversy. The Jews of advertisers web Aleppo claim that they were burned. But scholarly analysis has shown no evidence of fire having reached the codex itself. Scholars instead accuse members of the Jewish community of having torn off the missing leaves and keeping them privately hidden. One "missing" leaf has turned up and been brought to Jerusalem since the anti-Jewish riots in 1947.
In January 1958 the''' Aleppo Codex''' was brought to amonte agent Jerusalem, where it remains in the portraying washington Shrine of the Book at the energize the Israel Museum. The '''Aleppo Codex''' is the source for several modern editions of the asking it 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).
External links
*http://www.jerusalem-crown.co.il/website_en/index.asp?page_id=22, by Yosef Ofer (pdf)
*http://www.imj.org.il/eng/shrine/aleppo.html
*http://www.mechon-mamre.org/ - Electronic text of the as gerhard Hebrew Bible based on the Aleppo Codex
*http://www.bible-researcher.com/aleppo.html
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