Editing Aleppo Codex (section)

===Overview===
The [[Karaite Judaism|Karaite Jewish]] community of [[Jerusalem]] purchased the codex about a hundred years after it was made.<ref>[http://hebrewbooks.org/32847 M. Nehmad, ''Keter Aram Tzova'', Aleppo 1933]</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Pfeffer|first1=Anshel|title=Fragment of Ancient Parchment From Bible Given to Jerusalem Scholars|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4995266|work=Haaretz|date=6 November 2007}}</ref> When the [[First Crusade|Crusaders]] [[Siege of Jerusalem (1099)|conquered Jerusalem]] in 1099, the synagogue was plundered. The codex was held for a high ransom, which was paid with money from Egypt, leading to the codex being transferred there.<ref name="haaretz.com" /> It was preserved by the [[Karaite Judaism|Karaites]], then at the [[Rabbinic Judaism|Rabbanite]] synagogue in [[Old Cairo]], where it was consulted by [[Maimonides]], who described it as a text trusted by all Jewish scholars. It is rumoured that in 1375 one of Maimonides' descendants brought it to [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamluk-ruled]] Aleppo, leading to its present name.<ref name="haaretz.com" />

The Codex remained in Syria for nearly six hundred years. In 1947, rioters enraged by the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] burned down the [[synagogue]] where it was kept.<ref name="haaretz.com" /> The Codex disappeared, then reemerged in 1958, when it was smuggled into Israel by [[Syrian Jews|Syrian Jew]] Murad Faham and presented to the president of the state, [[Yitzhak Ben-Zvi]]. Sometime after arrival, it was found that parts of the codex had been lost. The Aleppo Codex was entrusted to the Ben-Zvi Institute and [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. It is currently (2019) on display in the [[Shrine of the Book]] at the [[Israel Museum]].

Israel submitted the Aleppo Codex for inclusion in UNESCO's [[Memory of the World]] international register and was included in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title= Aleppo Codex |website= United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |url= https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/aleppo-codex |access-date= 2024-12-16}}</ref>