The Aleppo Codex is the earliest, and some say best, copy of the Hebrew Bible. Unfortunately it has survived in only fragmentary form. This Associated Press article describes the codex and the efforts to assemble as much of it as possible.
Archive for the ‘Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew’ Category
The Hunt for Pages of the Aleppo Codex
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Shibboleths and Traitors, or, Death and Expulsion as Categories of Historical Phonetics
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Reflections from and Oxford Etymologist on phonetics as a discriminator of ethnicity and geography, using the Jephthah story of shibboleth as an illustrative example.