A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter, A.D. 1697
Author : Henry Maundrell
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1810
Category : Egypt
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A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem
Author : Henry Maundrell
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Jerusalem
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The Aleppo Codex
Author : Matti Friedman
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 161620270X
Book Description
Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.
Jerusalem
Author : Merav Mack
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0300245211
Book Description
A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.
A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter, A.D. 1697
Author : Henry Maundrell
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2018-10-13
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ISBN : 9780342738762
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Crown of Aleppo
Author : Hayim Tawil
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827609574
Book Description
"In Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the survival, against all odds, of the Aleppo Codex—one of the most authoritative and accurate traditional Masoretic texts of the Bible. Completed circa 939 in Tiberias, the Crown was created by exacting Tiberian scribes who copied the entire Bible into book form, adding annotations, vowel and cantillation marks, and precise commentary. Praised by Torah scholars for centuries after its writing, the Crown passed through history until the 15th century when it was housed in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in the 1947 pogrom, the codex was thought to be destroyed, lost forever. That is where its great mystery begins. Miraculously, a significant portion of the Crown of Aleppo survived the fire and was smuggled from the synagogue ruins to an unknown location— presumably within the Aleppan Jewish community. Ten years later, the surviving pages of the codex were secretly brought to Israel and finally moved to their current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. "
Early Travels in Palestine
Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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JOURNEY FROM ALEPPO TO JERUSALEM
Author : HENRY. MAUNDRELL
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033582770
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A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 1707
Category :
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The Ottoman City Between East and West
Author : Edhem Eldem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521643047
Book Description
Studies of early-modern Islamic cities have stressed the atypical or the idiosyncratic. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that they were in some way substandard or deviant. The first purpose of this volume is to normalize Ottoman cities, to demonstrate how, on the one hand, they resembled cities generally and how, on the other, their specific histories individualized them. The second purpose is to challenge the previous literature and to negotiate an agenda for future study. By considering the narrative histories of Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul, the book offers a departure from the piecemeal methods of previous studies, emphasizing their importance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and highlighting their essentially Ottoman character. While the essays provide an overall view, each can be approached separately. Their exploration of the sources and the agendas of those who have conditioned scholarly understanding of these cities will make them essential student reading.
