The Aleppo codex, the most revered Copy of the Hebrew Bible, survived intact for more than a millennium before it was ripped part, burnt, stolen, secreted, and finally rescued .
The Bible of Bibles. often considered the most authoritative text of the Hebrew bible, the 1000 year old Aleppo codex-known in Hebrew as the "Crown of Aleppo"--has had a tumultuous history. It remained fully intact until 1947, when it was nearly destroyed by an anti-Jewish mob This fragment a piece of the ten plagues narrative from the Book of Exodus, is all that remains from the first four books of the Hebrew bible. it surface recently, decades after it has been considered lost forever. Are there other fragments, pages, or possible entire books that remain hidden? Scholars believe that we have not seen the last of the missing pieces of the lege legendary Aleppo Codex.
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