{"id":182,"date":"2012-05-14T07:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T07:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-05-14T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:26:11","slug":"revealed-the-scandalous-history-of-judaisms-most-precious-book-the-times-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2012\/05\/14\/revealed-the-scandalous-history-of-judaisms-most-precious-book-the-times-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The scandalous history of Judaism\u2019s most precious book (The Times of Israel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Theft, espionage, corruption and a cover-up lasting decades \u2014 a new book by a Times of Israel reporter exposes the extraordinary saga of the uniquely revered, 1,100-year-old Aleppo Codex<\/h2>\n<div>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/writers\/times-of-israel-staff\/\" rel=\"tag\">Times of Israel staff<\/a>\u00a0May 10, 2012, 3:52 pm<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A new book by a Times of Israel reporter reveals dramatic new information about the fate of a manuscript many consider Judaism\u2019s most important book \u2014 the 1,100-year-old Aleppo Codex.<\/p>\n<p>The manuscript \u2014 or the part of it that did not go mysteriously missing in the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> century \u2014 is currently held alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It is revered as the authoritative version of the Hebrew Bible and considered by believing Jews to be the perfect version of the divine text.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the manuscript\u2019s 200 missing pages, and the question of how the codex traveled to Jerusalem from a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, have been the subject of speculation and are at the heart of Friedman\u2019s investigation, <em>The Aleppo Codex<\/em>, slated for publication in the U.S. on May 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/revealed-the-true-story-of-judaisms-most-precious-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">For full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theft, espionage, corruption and a cover-up lasting decades \u2014 a new book by a Times of Israel reporter exposes the extraordinary saga of the uniquely revered, 1,100-year-old Aleppo Codex By Times of Israel staff\u00a0May 10, 2012, 3:52 pm A new book by a Times of Israel reporter reveals dramatic new information about the fate of a manuscript many consider Judaism\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}