The Aleppo Codex : a true story of obsession, faith, and the pursuit of an ancient Bible
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This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text--the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Flushing Meadow
- Aleppo
- The fire
- The swift scribe of Tiberias
- The treasure in the synagogue
- The Jerusalem Circle
- The Sack of Jerusalem
- The jump
- The President
- The merchant's mission
- Maimonides
- Alexandretta
- The brown suitcase
- The trial
- A religious man
- Our last drop of blood
- The Book
- The keepers of the crown
- The officer and the scroll
- Exodus
- Aspergillus
- Brooklyn
- The fog grows
- The agent's investigation
- The collector
- The magicians
- A deal at the Hilton
- Room 915
- Money
- The missing pieces
- Silo
- The Institute
- Bahiyeh.