WHAT ARE WE READING?

Examples and discussions of printed editions of the Torah and Tanach.

Examples and discussions of various manuscripts, including the Leningrad and Aleppo codices.

The Aleppo codex is only extant from Deuteronomy 28:17b on.
For comparison purposes the same portion is displayed from the Leningrad codex and various printed sources

Genesis 22:13; ahar vs. ahad
This is the portion of the sacrifice of Issac where it is question of "a ram" or "a ram behind [Abraham]".

A large portion of the story of the Ammonite persecution, at the end of I Samuel 10, is absent from all texts---
in all languages---of the Tanach. It was found in a piece of manuscript from a cave in Qumran (Dead Sea).

The number of words in the Torah from the Talmud and the Leningrad codex as well.


LINKS

The text of the Leningrad codex
One can print the Hebrew text (PDF, etc), switch to verse view (for practicing)
and at the bottom left a link to the actual manuscript, in colour.

The Aleppo codex, available for downloading.

The Aleppo codex. Images.

Books from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Manuscripts from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Israel Museum collection.


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