The Bible Maimonides Trusted Is Missing Its Most Famous Verse

The Aleppo Codex was the Bible Maimonides trusted most. Its Shema verse is missing. We open the file. Around 930, a scribe in Tiberias copied what became the most authoritative Hebrew Bible in history. Maimonides endorsed it. For six centuries it sat in an iron chest in Aleppo. After riots in 1947, nearly two leaves in five were gone. The Torah page carrying the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4, is among them. This case file traces the Aleppo Codex from its scribe Aaron ben Asher to the Leningrad Codex and Codex Sassoon, and asks what we lost. SOURCES Jordan Penkower, "Maimonides and the Aleppo Codex," Textus 9 (1981) [https://uplopen.com/books/e/5090/file...] Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (3rd ed., 2012) [https://archive.org/details/textualcr...] Matti Friedman, The Aleppo Codex (2012) [https://archive.org/details/aleppocod...] A new case file every week. Subscribe for the next file — Abraham Firkovich. #aleppocodex #philosophy #history #casefilephilosophy