The Aleppo Codex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aleppo Codex write by Matti Friedman. This book was released on 2013-05-14. The Aleppo Codex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.
Crown of Aleppo
Crown of Aleppo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crown of Aleppo write by Hayim Tawil. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Crown of Aleppo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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. "
The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex)
The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex) write by Amir Harrak. This book was released on 2019-04-16. The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael the Great was elected patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox church in a most instable period. He nevertheless, found time, clarity of mind, and determination to write a voluminous world chronicle, which he completed four years before he died in November 7, 1199. The present edition and its translation begin with Book XV and end with Book XXI, the last Book in the Chronicle, thereby covering more than 160 years, from AD 1031 to AD 1195.
The Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aleppo Codex write by Matti Friedman. This book was released on 2013-05-14. The Aleppo Codex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.
Aleppo
Aleppo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aleppo write by David Sutton. This book was released on 2005. Aleppo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
