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Over a thousand years ago, after seven centuries of near-total silence, the creation of Hebrew manuscripts exploded with a thrilling flourish. The last of the Dead Sea Scrolls – the most important surviving ancient Judaic manuscripts – date to the 1st century C.E., and it wasn’t until the early Middle Ages that scholars known as Masoretes began to create a body of notes that standardized the text of the Hebrew Bible, which had remained in flux since antiquity.
One of the most well-known books to emerge from this project was the Aleppo Codex, assembled circa 930. It was later completed with Masoretic notes by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, a preeminent Bible scholar responsible for correcting the Codex to match the tradition he’d inherited about how the words should be spelled, vocalized and accented. The Aleppo Codex subsequently served as an exemplar for scribes to ensure that they’d copied the Bible properly. Today, unfortunately, fewer than 300 of the approximately 487 original folios of the Aleppo Codex survive....
The Hebrew Bible is the most influential book in
human history and the bedrock of Western civilization.
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