Editing Aleppo Codex (section)

===In Israel===
[[File:Jerusalem Schrein des Buches BW 1.JPG|thumb|right|Exterior view of the [[Shrine of the Book]]]]
In January 1958, the Aleppo Codex was smuggled out of Syria and sent to Jerusalem to be placed in the care of the chief rabbi of the Aleppo Jews.<ref name="friedman2">{{cite journal |author=Matti Friedman |date=June 30, 2014 |title=The Continuing Mysteries of the Aleppo Codex |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/176903/aleppo-codex |url-status=dead |journal=[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701172803/https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/176903/aleppo-codex |archive-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref> It was given first to [[Shlomo Zalman Shragai]] of the [[Jewish Agency]], who later testified that the Codex was complete or nearly so at the time.<ref name=friedman2/> Later that year, it was given to the [[Yad Ben Zvi|Ben-Zvi Institute]].<ref name=friedman2/> Still during 1958, the Jewish community of Aleppo sued the Ben-Zvi Institute for the return of the Codex. The court ruled against them and suppressed the publication of the proceedings.<ref name=friedman2/>

In the late 1980s, the codex was placed in the [[Shrine of the Book]] at the [[Israel Museum]].<ref name=holy /> This finally gave scholars a chance to examine it and consider the claims that it is indeed the manuscript referred to by Maimonides. The work of [[Moshe Goshen-Gottstein]] on the few surviving pages of the Torah seems to have confirmed these claims beyond reasonable doubt. Goshen-Gottstein suggested in the introduction to his facsimile reprint of the codex that not only was it the oldest known [[Masoretic Text]] (𝕸) in a single volume, but it was the first time that one or two people had produced a complete [[Tanakh]] as a unified entity in a consistent style.

During the [[Gulf War]], and again during the [[Gaza war]], the scrolls were placed in secure storage as part of the Israel Museum's emergency protocol.<ref name=IsraelStory>{{cite podcast
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====Reconstruction attempts====
Later, after the university denied him access to the codex, [[Mordechai Breuer]] began his reconstruction of the Masoretic text based on other well-known ancient manuscripts. His results matched the Aleppo Codex almost precisely. Breuer's version is used authoritatively to reconstruct the missing portions of the Aleppo Codex. The ''[[Jerusalem Crown]]'' ({{langx|he|כתר ירושלים|Keter Yerushalayim|Jerusalem Crown}}), printed in Jerusalem in 2000, is a modern version of the Tanakh based on the Aleppo Codex and the work of Breuer: It uses a newly designed typeface based on the calligraphy of the Codex and is based on its page layout.<ref>Glazer, Mordechai, ed., ''Companion Volume to Keter Yerushalam'' (2002, Jerusalem, N. Ben-Zvi Printing Enterprises).</ref>