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Codex Sassoon 1053

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10th century manuscript of the Hebrew bible. Codex S1 (or M ; formerly Codex Sassoon 1053 and also Safra, JUD 002 ) is a Masoretic codex comprising all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible , dated to the 10th century CE. It is considered as old as the Aleppo Codex and a century older than the Leningrad Codex (from 1008 CE), the earliest known complete Hebrew Bible manuscript. Alternatively, it might be dated to the late 9th century. The Aleppo Codex was missing 40% of its leaves when it resurfaced in Israel in 1958, while in Codex S1 only twelve leaves are completely missing and hundreds more are partially lost. The scribe of S1 was unusually sloppy, frequently forgetting punctuation, diacritical marks, and vowels; he also errs in his consonantal spelling on dozens of occasions. Yosef Ofer [ he ] has announced a forthcoming critical edition of S1's masora magna . The New York Times . Introduction to the Tiberian Masorah . An Introduction to the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project . "פרויקטים אקדמיים" . ד"ר נריה קליין (in Hebrew) .

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masoretic codex comprising all 24 books of the hebrew bible

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almost-complete masoretic codex comprising almost all pages

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