The Aleppo Codex (Hebrew: כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא Keter Aram Tzova) is a medieval bound manuscriptof the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the 10th century A.D.[1] The codex isconsidered by some to be the most authoritative document in the masorah (“transmission”), atradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from generation to generation.[2] Surviving examples of responsa literature show that the Aleppo Codex was consulted byfar-flung Jewish scholars throughout the Middle Ages, and some modern studies argue that itis the most accurate representation of Masoretic principles in any extant manuscript, containingvery few errors among the roughly 2.7 million orthographic details[3] that make up theMasoretic Text. For these reasons, some scholars view the Aleppo Codex as the mostauthoritative representative of the masoretic tradition, both its letter-text and its vocalization(niqqud and cantillation), although most of its Torah section and many other parts of the textare now missing and older documents such as the Dead Sea Scrolls have significantly differentversions of the Biblical text.[4]
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