It is rumored that in 1375 one of Maimonides’ descendants brought it to Aleppo, Syria, leading to its present name. The Karaite Jewish community of Jerusalem purchased the codex about a hundred years after it was made. During the First Crusade, the synagogue was plundered and the codex was transferred to Egypt, whose Jews paid a high price for its ransom. It was preserved at the Karaite then Rabbanite synagogue in Old Cairo, where it was consulted by Maimonides, who described it as a text trusted by all Jewish scholars. It was being guarded in the oldest synagogue in Aleppo, Syria, a predominantly Muslim town, which was an ancient, very small community of Jews. Yet, this really never impacted anything. For example, we have what is agree to be the most important Hebrew manuscript, called the Keter, the “Crown,” that originally contained the entire Hebrew Scriptures.
Nevertheless, the Hebrew scriptures had the early sopherim (scribes) taking liberties with the text but not in extreme ways and yes some scribal errors slipt into the Hebrew text. The Hebrew manuscript had been faithfully copied for centuries until. Why? Because these manuscripts contained “Jehovah” (Heb., יהוה), the Tetragrammaton, the Hebrew letters representing the sacred, personal name of God. The Jews carried out this practice for fear that their Scriptures would be profaned or misused. After some time passed and they had accumulated a number of worn Hebrew manuscripts, they would be taken outside and buried. Why were there so few ancient Hebrew manuscripts when we consider the enormous amount we have for the New Testament? Following the customary Jewish practice, any Hebrew Bible manuscript that was considered too worn for further use, it was locked away in a genizah, which was a storeroom in the synagogue. Does this mean that prior to 1947, textual scholars and translators were uncertain about the Hebrew Bible that lies behind our English Old Testament? No, there was the most important Hebrew manuscript, which is called the Keter, the “Crown,” that originally contained all the Hebrew Scriptures, or the “Old Testament.” That is bit a mere thousand years ago when the thirty-nine Hebrew Old Testament Bible books date from 2,500 to 3,500 years ago. Together with the Leningrad Codex, it contains the Ben-Asher Masoretic tradition, but the Aleppo Codex lacks most of the Torah section and many other parts.īEFORE the discovery of the cache of Hebrew scrolls in the Dead Sea caves in 1947, aside from a few fragments, our Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts were from the late 9th to the 11th century C.E. under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, and was endorsed for its accuracy by Maimonides. The codex was written in the city of Tiberias in the 10th century C.E. The Aleppo Codex (Hebrew: כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא Keter Aram Tzova or Crown of Aleppo) is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible.
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