The Aleppo Codex

[First posted in AWOL 10 January 2011, updated 27 February 2017]

The Aleppo Codex

The Aleppo Codex, the most splendid, old, and accurate manuscript of the Bible, is presented here for the first time in full color photograph, permitting the reader to examine the handiwork of the greatest of the Masoretes, who were active in Tiberias in the tenth century, Aharon Ben Moshe Ben Asher, and to gain an impression of the way the Masoretes worked to preserve the accurate text of the Bible and the reading tradition. 

The Aleppo Codex is a full manuscript of the entire Bible, which was written in about 930. For more than a thousand years, the manuscript was preserved in its entirety in important Jewish communities in the Near East: Tiberias, Jerusalem, Egypt, and in the city of Aleppo in Syria. However, in 1947, after the United Nations Resolution establishing the State of Israel, it was damaged in riots that broke out in Syria. At first people thought that it had been completely destroyed. Later, however, it turned out that most of the manuscript had been saved and kept in a secret hiding place. In 1958, the Aleppo Codex was smuggled out of Syria to Jerusalem and delivered to the President of the State of Israel, Izhak Ben-Zvi.

Once the Aleppo Codex reached Israel, precise study of it began in many areas. Scholars of the Masora and of the text of the Bible took note of its special status among the manuscripts related to it. It was found that the match between the spelling of the Aleppo Codex and the comments of the Masora was excellent, far better than the match of other manuscripts. Similarly, the vocalization signs in the Aleppo Codex were examined and described, along with the cantillation marks, the system of ge’iyot (a kind of accent mark), and the apparatus of the Masora. All of these terms will be explained and demonstrated in this site...

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Articles

Introduction
The Bible and its Transmission - Scrolls, Manuscripts, Printings
The Masoretes
The Aleppo Codex
The Vicissitudes of the Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex Today

 See also Codex Sinaiticus

Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique

Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique

Le projet du Thesaurus d’épigraphie islamique a pour ambition de réunir toutes les inscriptions arabes, persanes et turques, voire dans d'autres langues du monde musulman, jusqu'à l'an 1000 de l'hégire, c'est-à-dire du Moyen Age.

Le Thesaurus d’Epigraphie Islamique s’inscrit dans la lignée du Répertoire Chronologique d’Epigraphie Arabe tout en étant indépendant. En effet, le projet actuel ne tient pas compte seulement des inscriptions arabes mais également persanes et turques, voire d’autres. En outre, les avantages informatiques ont permis une nouvelle présentation de fiche-type ainsi qu’une précision accrue dans l’enregistrement et surtout dans la consultation des données. La Fondation Max van Berchem de Genève a bien voulu accepter la sponsorisation du projet qui a été officiellement mis en route en février 1992. 

La base de données étant informatisée, on peut facilement imaginer que les premiers pas n’étaient pas simples, «l’universalité» du système informatique n’ayant pas été, à l’époque, encore achevée (problème des caractères latins diacrités, des caractères “neutres“ dans l’écriture arabe, compatibilité entre Macintosh et PC, etc.). Dès le début, la saisie des inscriptions se fait sur l’ordinateur Macintosh et le logiciel utilisé pour l'élaboration de la base est le logiciel “4ème dimension»(ou “4D“), sous ses différentes versions successives. C’est ainsi que nous sommes passés, non sans mal, par plusieurs systèmes informatiques différents. La diffusion se faisait, à partir de 1998, sous formes de CD-Rom,t puis de DVD-Rom, chaque nouveau disque comprenant une (éventuellement deux ou trois) nouvelle livraison incluant les inscriptions d'une nouvelle région. Le découpage géographique suivi est présenté plus bas, dans la section 5/ des présentes notices.

Depuis le mois d’octobre 2011, c’est à dire depuis la 10ème livraison, la base est disponible, gratuitement, sur Internet. Deux ou trois livraisons à venir vont inclure les régions manquantes et il sera ainsi prochainement possible, au bout d’un long chemin, de consulter l'ensemble des inscriptions musulmanes du moyen âge! 

Le projet ne va pas s’arrêter là. La base sera régulièrement enrichie et complétée et tous les deux ans environ, une livraison actualisée, sur le plan scientifique comme sur le plan informatique, va remplacer la livraison précédente.

Nous souhaitons susciter, pour les différentes régions comme pour l’ensemble du projet, des collaborations effectives qui vont continuer à être reconnues dans la section 7/ Remerciements.

1 PRÉSENTATION DU PROJET

2 A PROPOS DES AUTEURS

3 PRISE EN MAIN

4 GUIDE ABRÉGÉ DE LA BASE

5 DÉCOUPAGE GÉOGRAPHIQUE

6 BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES ARTICLES PRÉSENTANT LE THESAURUS

7 REMERCIEMENTS

8 COMMENT CITER LE THESAURUS ?

9 CONTACTS

Open Access Journal: Revista Vértices

Revista Vértices
ISSN: 2179-5894

Revista dos Pós-Graduandos da Área de Hebraico do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Judaicos e Estudos Árabes do Departamento de Letras Orientais da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo.

2014

No. 17 (2014)

No. 16 (2014)

2013

No. 15 (2013)

No. 14 (2013)

2012

No. 13 (2012)

No. 12 (2012)

2011

No. 11 (2011)

No. 10 (2011)

2010

No. 9 (2010)

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Open Access Journal: Jewish Bible Quarterly

 [First posted in AWOL 19 January 2011. Updated 22 June 2016]

Jewish Bible Quarterly
ISSN: 0792-3910

The Jewish Bible Quarterly provides timely, authoritative studies on biblical themes. As the only Jewish-sponsored English-language journal devoted exclusively to the Bible, it is an essential source of information for anyone working in Bible studies. The Journal publishes original articles, book reviews, a triennial calendar of Bible reading and correspondence.

• Current Issue
• Past Issues
• Index

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Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Online

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS)

ISBN: 978-3-438-05222-3
Publisher: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

This study edition offers the established text of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) in a convenient format and at an extremely attractive price.

Published by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph, together with numerous scholars. 5th, improved edition (1997), edited by Adrian Schenker. Currently the prevailing editions of the Hebrew Old Testament. Hebrew Text according to the Codex Leningradensis. Critical apparatus at the bottom of the page. Masorah compiled and revised by Gérard M. Weil. There are cross references from the complete small Masorah to the large Masorah, which was separately published.

With key to Latin words and abbreviations in English and German.

And see also:

• Greek New Testament following the text of the Novum Testamentum Graece (ed. Nestle-Aland), 28. Edition and the UBS Greek New Testament
• Greek Old Testament following the text of the Septuagint (ed. Rahlfs/Hanhart)
• Latin Bible following the text of the Vulgate (ed. Weber/Gryson)

Open Access Journal: Hebrew Annual Review

[First posted in AWOL 2 April 2014, updated 1 March 2016]

Hebrew Annual Review
ISSN: 0193-7162

"A journal of studies of Hebrew language and literature."  The Melton Center for Jewish Studies Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University.

• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 1 (1977)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 2 (1978)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 3 (1979)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 4 (1980)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 5 (1981)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 6 (1982)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 7 (1983)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 8 (1984)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 9 (1985)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 10 (1986)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 11 (1987)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 12 (1990)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 13 (1991)
• Hebrew Annual Review: Volume 14 (1994)

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SHEBANQ: System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup

SHEBANQ: System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup

 

This is a system for the study of the Hebrew Bible, produced by the ETCBC in cooperation with the German Bible Society and the Netherlands Bible Society.

It is powered by the ETCBC database, formerly known as WIVU which facilitates powerful syntactical queries. SHEBANQ lets you develop and share those queries with fellow researchers. Scholarly editions of the Bible usually dedicate space to a critical apparatus and various kinds of annotations. SHEBANQ introduces the idea of annotating the text with queries. They show up next to the text pages where the results are. By sharing your queries with others, you may find what you did not search for. Of course you can also add ordinary annotations!

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Orion Study Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literatures

Orion Study Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literatures

The Orion Center was established in 1995 as part of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Our web site provides many resources for the study of the Scrolls, as well as information about the Center's activities and programs.


RESEARCH ON THE SCROLLS

The Center aims to stimulate and foster research on the Scrolls, particularly the great task of integrating the new information gained from the Scrolls into the body of knowledge about Jewish history and religion in the Second Temple period. Such integration will affect areas like biblical studies, Jewish literature and thought of the Second Temple Period, earliest Christianity and the New Testament, the study of early rabbinic Judaism, and more.


STUDY OF THE SCROLLS IN JERUSALEM

Many aspects of the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls can be done best and uniquely at the Hebrew University and in Jerusalem. Such topics include the relationship of the Scrolls to rabbinic literature and thought, to the Jewish liturgy, to the Piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), the study of the Scrolls as physical artifacts (most recently in the area of DNA analysis), their archeological context and their relationship to other Judean Desert finds.


STUDY OF THE SCROLLS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY

The Center intends to focus and to coordinate the research presently being carried out at the Hebrew University, and to ensure a balanced and structured program of research and instruction. More specifically, the Orion Center organizes lectures in Hebrew and English (scholars seminars and presentation & discussion hours), and international symposia. In addition the Center offers grants for graduate and post-doctoral study of the scrolls related literature at Hebrew University. 

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