All upcoming Public LecturesThe Mystery of the Aleppo Codex, the most famous Manuscript of the Hebrew Bible
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Time: 18:00
Place: Judiska Biblioteket, Wahrendorffsgatatan 3B, Stockholm
Other: Fri entré. Föranmälan till Alexander Freudenthal
The Aleppo Codex is a 1,100 year old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible of great historical and religious importance. Evidence of this is Maimonides’ determination that some divisions of paragraphs in the Pentateuch be based on its model. In 1947 most of the manuscript was severely damaged and lost. Scholars who examined the Aleppo Codex when it was still intact remain divided on whether the Aleppo Codex was indeed the one Maimonides relied upon. As new details of the missing biblical text are revealed and researched, some newly printed editions of the Bible base their editing upon the findings.
Prof. Yosef Ofer is an associate professor in Bible at the Bar Ilan University.
In cooperation with the Great Synagogue in Stockholm.
Föranmälan till alexander.freudenthal@jfst.se
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Box 5053, SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 (0)8 679 55 55, Fax: +46 (0)8 661 14 55, Email: info@paideia-eu.org