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  • From: "Ashley Crane" <acrane AT harvestwest.wa.edu.au>
  • To: "Don A. Elbourne Jr." <delbourne AT home.com>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Aleppo codex?
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:38:06 +0800


Yes Don, that is the facsimile edition - but it is just like the original

You will be hard pressed to get your hands on the original.....

Ashley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don A. Elbourne Jr." <delbourne AT home.com>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: RE: Aleppo codex?


> 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
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>
> > -----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 (Perhaps my copy of the BHS is out of date.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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