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The mysterious fate of Maimonides’ Bible

Matti Friedman investigates the rescue of the 1,000-year-old Aleppo Codex.

The mysterious fate of Maimonides’ Bible
Photo by: MATTI FRIEDMAN
Three cheers for Matti Friedman, a Jerusalem-based journalist who honed his reporting chops at the Associated Press, The Jerusalem Report and elsewhere, and who in his first book got his teeth into a terrific story and investigated and reported it as thoroughly as possible.

In other hands the bizarre saga of a priceless ancient Jewish text might have been over-dramatized and sensationalized; its subheading might well have alluded to suspected villainy, political cover-up, even murder. Friedman has resisted that. What we have instead is a straightforward report, a highly readable, deeply engaging, balanced and nuanced pursuit of the facts.

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