(i24news) The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) last week officially added the Aleppo Codex, believed to be the world's oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible, to its International Memory of the World Register. The Codex, which now resides at the Shrine of the Book Museum in Jerusalem, was written in Tiberias around 930 CE, and then moved to Jerusalem, from where it was stolen when the Crusaders sacked the city in 1099. It was later ransomed by the Jews of Cairo. In the 14th century it found its way to Aleppo, Syria, and it arrived in Israel in 1958.
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