Editing Aleppo Codex (section)

==Name==
The codex's Hebrew name is {{Script/Hebrew|כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא}} {{transliteration|he|Keṯer ʾĂrām-Ṣoḇāʾ}}, translated as "Crown of Aleppo". ''Kether'' means "crown", and [[Zobah|Aram-Ṣovaʾ]] (literally "outside [[Aram (region)|Aram]]") was a not-yet-identified biblical city in what is now [[Syria]] whose name was applied from the 11th century onward by some [[Rabbinic Judaism|Rabbinic]] sources and [[Syrian Jews]] to the area of [[Aleppo]] in Syria. ''Kether'' is a translation of Arabic ''tāj'', originally Persian ''[[wiktionary:تاج|tāj]]''; the codex was called ''al-Tāj'' by locals until the modern period. In Arabic, the term ''tāj'' was used mostly as a stock superlative title (Muslim caliphs did not wear crowns) and applied liberally to model codices. It lost this sense when translated into Hebrew as ''kether'', which has only the literal sense of crown.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stern |first1=David |author1-link=David Stern (academic) |editor1-last=Glick |editor1-first=Shmuel |editor2-last=Cohen |editor2-first=Evelyn M. |editor3-last=Piattelli |editor3-first=Angelo M. |editor1-link=Shmuel Glick |editor2-link=Evelyn M. Cohen |editor3-link=Angelo M. Piattelli |title=Meḥevah le-Menaḥem: Studies in Honor of Menahem Hayyim Schmelzer |date=2019 |publisher=Schocken |location=Jerusalem |pages=259–273 |chapter=On the Term Keter as a Title for Bibles: A Speculation about its Origins}}</ref>