Editing Aleppo Codex (section)

{{Short description|10th-century Hebrew Bible manuscript}}
{{For|the 2012 book|The Aleppo Codex{{!}}''The Aleppo Codex''}}
[[File:Aleppo Codex Joshua 1 1.jpg|thumb|Closeup of Aleppo Codex, Joshua 1:1]]
[[File:Aleppo Codex (Deut).jpg|thumb|Page from Aleppo Codex, Deuteronomy]]

The '''Aleppo Codex''' ({{langx|he|כֶּתֶר אֲרַם צוֹבָא|Keṯer ʾĂrām-Ṣoḇāʾ|Crown of Aleppo}}) is a medieval bound manuscript of the [[Hebrew Bible]]. The [[codex]] was written in the city of [[Tiberias]] in the tenth century CE (circa 920) under the rule of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]],<ref name="haaretz.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/920915.html |title=Fragment of ancient parchment given to Jewish scholars |access-date=2009-03-02 |archive-date=2009-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707031841/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/920915.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was endorsed for its accuracy by [[Maimonides]]. Together with the [[Leningrad Codex]], it contains the [[Aaron ben Moses ben Asher]] [[Masoretic Text]] tradition.

The codex was kept for five centuries in the [[Central Synagogue of Aleppo]], until the synagogue was torched during [[1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo]].<ref name=Pfeffer /> The fate of the codex during the subsequent decade is unclear: when it resurfaced in Israel in 1958, roughly 40% of the manuscript—including the majority of the [[Torah]] section—was missing, and only two additional leaves have been recovered since then.<ref name=holy /> The original supposition that the missing pages were destroyed in the synagogue fire has increasingly been challenged, fueling speculation that they survive in private hands.<ref name=friedman2 /><ref name=holy />

The portion of the codex that is accounted for is housed in the [[Shrine of the Book]] at the [[Israel Museum]].<ref name=friedman2 />