Thursday, October 27, 2022

Review of the Aleppo Synagogue exhibition

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Step into the Aleppo Synagogue. VR exhibit displays a lost wonder on the verge of its destruction (Nathan Steinmeyer).
Step into the great Aleppo Synagogue, one of the most important synagogues in the world and home to the oldest Hebrew Bible in existence, the Aleppo Codex. At least, that was how the Aleppo Synagogue would have been described before its destruction in 1947. Now an incredible virtual reality experience is bringing this lost wonder back to life.

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PaleoJudaica posts on this exhibition are here and here. Follow the links from there for many posts on the Aleppo Codex of the Hebrew Bible.

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