Friday, January 04, 2008

ALEPPO CODEX UPDATE: The New Jersey Jewish Standard has an article on the current efforts to recover lost pages of the Aleppo Codex. It mostly covers the same ground as previous treatments, but there's one interesting detail I don't recall seeing before. In any case, it deserves to be highlighted:
Glatzer told JTA the institute is negotiating with several former members of the Aleppo community in hopes of retrieving at least part of the remaining codex. He would not give any further details about the discussions for fear of disrupting progress.
That seems to indicate that some additional fragments do survive, which is very good news. I wish them success.

Background here.