Hebrew
The Masorah Parva and Masorah Magna
The text of the Hebrew Bible, as it now sits between the covers of a printed Mikraot Gedolot or a single-volume Hebrew Tanakh, looks deceptively clean. Page after page of square Aramaic…
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The Crown of Aleppo
In the spring of 1958 a single bound parchment codex, wrapped in cloth and hidden in a small suitcase, was carried across the Syrian–Turkish border by a cheese merchant named Murad Faham.…
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The Leningrad Codex
In a reading room on the Neva, opposite the Winter Palace, a Hebrew Bible of nearly five hundred parchment folios lies open on a stand. Its pages are a soft cream, its…