For 11 centuries, “Judaism’s most important book” has been “lusted over, stolen, and neglected,” said Brook Wilensky-Lanford in The Boston Globe. Dictated by the great 10th-century rabbi Aaron ...

The Aleppo Codex — believed to be the world’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible — has been officially recognized as a treasured item by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural ...

The codex, believed to be the world’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible, will join two other Israeli items in the United Nations agency's registry. The codex, which is on permanent display at ...

In this fascinating and comprehensive investigation into the Aleppo Codex, scholars Tawil and Schneider vividly recreate the history of this rare and eminently significant text and track its ...

It is one of the world's greatest treasures. Written sometime around 930 A.D. in the town of Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, the Aleppo Codex is the oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew ...

When it comes to the treasures of biblical antiquity, the Dead Sea Scrolls seem to get all the attention. But there is another Bible that deserves our attention — the so-called Crown of Aleppo. To be ...

The owner of an Irish hotel is set to sell a book described as the most influential in history for a fee of up to $50 million at an auction in May. Jacqui Safra, a Swiss-Lebanese investor who co-owns ...