{"id":185,"date":"2012-05-14T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-05-14T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:25:18","slug":"author-qa-four-years-on-the-trail-of-the-codex-the-times-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2012\/05\/14\/author-qa-four-years-on-the-trail-of-the-codex-the-times-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Q&#038;A: Four years on the trail of the codex (The Times of Israel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Matti Friedman, author of \u2018The Aleppo Codex,\u2019 explains how he got drawn into a search for the truth about the most revered version of the Hebrew Bible<\/h2>\n<div>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/writers\/jessica-steinberg\/\" rel=\"tag\">Jessica Steinberg<\/a>\u00a0May 10, 2012<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Times of Israel writer Matti Friedman publishes his first book next week: \u201dThe Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible\u201d (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill).<\/p>\n<p>Friedman stumbled upon the Aleppo Codex and its mysterious story by chance, and found that a long-standing interest in archaeology and history helped him navigate its complicated maze of ancient and modern drama. As we wandered this week through the dim corridors of the Israel Museum\u2019s Shrine of the Book, where part of the 1,100-year-old biblical manuscript is kept, Friedman talked about his own book \u2014 and the sacred book at its center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/breaking-the-codex\/\" target=\"_blank\">For full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matti Friedman, author of \u2018The Aleppo Codex,\u2019 explains how he got drawn into a search for the truth about the most revered version of the Hebrew Bible By Jessica Steinberg\u00a0May 10, 2012 Times of Israel writer Matti Friedman publishes his first book next week: \u201dThe Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible\u201d &#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\/185"}],"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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}