Name: The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of one of the World s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books (en Inglés)
SKU: 24510600
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Author: Friedman, Matti
ISBN: 9781616202781

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The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of one of the World s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Matti Friedman

Editorial

Algonquin Books

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6x13.7x2 cm

Peso

0.25 kg.

ISBN

1616202785

ISBN13

9781616202781

N° edición

Categorías

Israel
Relativo a personas o grupos judíos
Historia de oriente próximo
Historia social y cultural
Historia de la religión
Judaísmo

The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of one of the World s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books (en Inglés)

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Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman's true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It's a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.