417:(2002, Jerusalem, N. Ben-Zvi Printing Enterprises) pages 40-42; these included a copy of a printed Torah with handwritten notes by Yishai ben Amram ha-Cohen Amadi (end of the 16th century), a note written by a mid-19th century Aleppo rabbi listing eleven significant readings of the Codex which was found by Umberto Cassuto in the pages of the Codex (ca. 1943), a long list of notes by the same 19th-century rabbi answering questions submitted to him by mail, and a printed Bible thoroughly marked up with notes by a late 19th-century rabbi who examined the Codex - this Bible was not publicized and was almost discarded in 1987 when it was fortuitously identified. Also see:
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originally reported as completely destroyed. In fact, more than two-thirds of the Codex survived and was later (ca. 1957) smuggled into Israel. At that time only 294 pages were gotten (later one more page was turned in) from an original total whose estimates run from 380 to 491 pages (possibly the lowest estimate is for the Bible text alone and the higher estimates include appendices such as
Masoretic notes, treatises on grammar, etc., such as are part of the Leningrad Codex). In general, most of the
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to be positioned by hand. The new font had to be designed by Zvi
Narkiss with a repertory of 138 characters - letters, vowel points, accents, - and then special characters (certain letters are uncommonly large or small or superscript or inverted according to Masoretic tradition), many of them used only once. As with all printed Hebrew Bibles, there were about three million characters - letters, vowels, accents, and other marks - to be typeset.
110:). The printed text consists of 874 pages of the Hebrew Bible, two pages setting forth both appearances of the Ten Commandments (one from Exodus 20 and the other from Deuteronomy 5) each showing the two different cantillationsâfor private and for public recitation, 23 pages briefly describing the research background and listing alternative readings (mostly from the
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The book was entirely set in print by computer, using a new computer program called "Tag", that could handle the letters, vowel points, accents, and the special characters. In previous editions around the world, only the majority of the text could be typeset by machine but the special characters had
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have been printed in a different layout; each verse of these books being presented in a single line and divided into two hemistichs (according to their poetic meter); this layout enables even readers unfamiliar with the biblical accentuation marks to read the text correctly. However, it also dictated
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made a point of finding and collecting every known pre-1947 description of the Aleppo Codex (most of these were unpublished), including some surreptitious photographs, and used the descriptions of the surviving parts to verify the authenticity of the Codex and the descriptions of the missing parts to
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was missing (the surviving text ended at Song of Songs 3:11; completely lost were
Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiahâas well as some pages in the midst of surviving books). Starting in 1986, the Israel Museum took ten years to remove a thousand years' accumulation of dirt,
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provides further details and history of this important manuscript. During the pogrom on
December 1, 1947 (two days after the United Nations voted to recommend partition of Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state) the Syrian Army firebombed the Great Synagogue of Aleppo and the Codex was
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in the late 12th century, and partly also to its claim to have been personally proofread and marked with the vowel points and accents by the last of the great family of
Masoretes, Aaron ben Moshe ben Asher, not only by matching the various descriptions which had been published, but also by matching
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notes that remain are put at the very bottom of a column, without any indication of the verse to which they are related, a style which becomes more confusing when a column has more than one such note. However these defects are considered microscopic in contrast to the overall high quality of this
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However, the Aleppo Codex has many virtues. In its text of the
Prophets (where it is nearly complete) it has fewer spelling errors than either the Leningrad Codex or the Cairo Codex. It has long been known that there are nine spelling differences (insignificant to meaning) between manuscripts of
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in the accustomed printed sequence, rather than the sequence of the manuscript Aleppo Codex. The printed
Jerusalem Crown has them in this order: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther Daniel Ezra, Nehemiah, and first and second Chronicles. The manuscript
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As might be expected, the handwritten notes made by scholars who had been privileged to handle the Codex could not be as completely reliable as the manuscript itself. For example, a number of them had, on different occasions, copied down, supposedly word-for-word, the dedicatory colophon of the
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for the press in a three-column layout, thus preserving the original layout of many of the most important Jewish manuscripts. The
Jerusalem Crown was the first publication to return to this layout since the invention of the printing press. The project was made possible by the availability of
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Published in the spring of 2001 as an act in behalf the Aleppo Codex, in a large exhibit edition, and the next year in a general trade edition with a companion volume. The edition is based on the latest scholarship concerning the biblical text and on the last version edited by
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Ashkenaz or Sefardic origin and manuscripts of Yemenite originâand the Aleppo Codex sides with the Yemenite manuscripts on those differences. The Aleppo Codex conforms consistently to Maimonides's quotations of Scripture, which the Leningrad Codex does not.
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computerized typesetting. The poetic passages in the
Pentateuch and the Prophets are printed in the traditional layout (âhalf-bricks set over whole bricksâ). The Song at the Sea (Exodus chapter 15) is presented as a single unit, on a separate page. The books of
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was rarely used in the Aleppo Codex but is more common in modern editions - so the Aleppo appearances of this mark are shown slightly differently than the many added to make the edition conform to modern usage. Additionally, the relatively few
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in Hebrew and English, in 2002 to great praise. However, there was also a smattering of scholarly criticism. For example, that the Masoretic notes were almost totally omitted and the printed edition showed only some of the original Codex's
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Although the text of this edition was closely based on Breuer's edition, there were a very few departures where conscientious examination of the Codex itself indicated that Breuer had departed from the Aleppo text.
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Aleppo Codex had them ordered: Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Songs, followed by (according to notes, because these are now lost) Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.
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