An ancient and priceless book, a murky history of evasions and coverups, an underground of sinister and possibly violent dealers, a former spy who drops tantalizing hints and a wily 84-year-old ...

The Aleppo Codex — believed to be the world’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible — has been officially recognized as a treasured item by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural ...

The Jewish people are known as the “people of the book,” and over the centuries it has sacrificed much not only to live by that book, the Torah, but to maintain the integrity of its text as well. The ...

Friedman gives a masterful account of a major religious document, housed with the better known Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem’s Shrine of the Book. The Aleppo Codex, a volume of parchment folios ...

The codex, believed to be the world’s oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible, will join two other Israeli items in the United Nations agency's registry. The codex, which is on permanent display at ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This is a detective-style story about the most important religious text that you’ve probably never heard of. Even the author hadn’t known about the codex when he ran into the story in 2008 while an ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Matti Friedman, author of “The Aleppo Codex,” won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Friedman takes home $100,000 for winning the prize, which was announced Thursday.