Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Don A. Elbourne Jr." <delbourne AT home.com>]

Isn't this a facsimile edition?

The Aleppo Codex : Provided With Massoretic Notes and Pointed by Aaron Ben
Asher the Codex Considered Authoritive by Maimonides
by Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein (Editor)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9652235687/zacksbokorama






Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.simplenet.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Richards [mailto:jhr AT universalist.worldonline.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 4:00 AM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Aleppo codex?
>
>
> The Jewish Network site at www.shamash.org/tanach/ has a link to a "fully
> voweled and punctuated Torah text according to the Allepo (sic)
> Codex which
> is in HTML4 RTL text." It also mentions "The rest of the Bible is in
> preparation."
>
> Is this the famous Aleppo Sephardim synagogue codex, referred to in the
> Prefaces to the printed BHS?
>
> According to the third Preface (by Paul Kahle) , "Rudolf Kittel and I had
> hoped to be able to replace the Leningrad MS. L, which was used
> as the basis
> of the Biblia Hebraica in the course of our work, with the model codex of
> Ben Asher himself which is kept in the synagogue of the Shephardim in
> Aleppo. That has not been possible since the owners of the codex would not
> hear of a photographic copy."
>
> Admittedly this was written in 1937, but I was unaware that the situation
> had changed. (Perhaps my copy of the BHS is out of date. It is the 7th
> edition.) If the situation has changed, is the Aleppo codex in fact that
> much better than the Leningrad text? And is the Mechon Mamre etext, which
> the link referred to above leads to, critical and accurate, does anyone
> know?
>
> John Richards
>
>
>
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