Aleppo Codex
Overview
The oldest most authoritative manuscript of the Masoretic Hebrew Bible, precise point by Aaron ben Asher around 930 in Tiberias. Venerated for centuries in the Aleppo synagogue, about a third was lost in riots in 1947 before the remainder reached Israel. It fixed the standard text of the Hebrew Bible.
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