Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Aleppo CodexCondition: NewSubtitle: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious BooksISBN-10: 1616202785EAN: 9781616202781ISBN: 9781616202781Publisher: Algonquin BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/14/2013Description: “A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended.” —Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Matti FriedmanGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 260gRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Aleppo Codex
Title: The Aleppo Codex
Subtitle: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Myster
ISBN-10: 1616202785
EAN: 9781616202781
ISBN: 9781616202781
Release Date: 05/14/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Aleppo Codex : in Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Topic: General, Eastern, Biblical Studies / General, Middle East / General, Jewish
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2013
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, True Crime, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Matti Friedman
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
