An ancient and priceless book, a murky history of evasions and coverups, an underground of sinister and possibly violent dealers, a former spy who drops tantalizing hints and a wily 84-year-old ...

For 11 centuries, “Judaism’s most important book” has been “lusted over, stolen, and neglected,” said Brook Wilensky-Lanford in The Boston Globe. Dictated by the great 10th-century rabbi Aaron ...

The Aleppo Codex — believed to be the world’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible — has been officially recognized as a treasured item by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The codex, believed to be the world’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible, will join two other Israeli items in the United Nations agency's registry. The codex, which is on permanent display at ...

When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting narrative about how a sacred book was rescued and returned home from the Diaspora to Jerusalem.

Matti Friedman, an Associated Press reporter, thought he’d found the perfect human interest story. Perhaps the most authoritative manuscript of the Jewish Bible, the Aleppo Codex, called the Crown, ...

It’s been a long journey for the brittle pieces of parchment inked more than 1,000 years ago along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The manuscript considered the most authoritative text of the Bible, ...

Friedman gives a masterful account of a major religious document, housed with the better known Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem’s Shrine of the Book. The Aleppo Codex, a volume of parchment folios ...