After completion of the various editions, the Companion Volume, edited by Dr. Mordechai Glatzer, was published. It contains articles dealing with the importance of the Aleppo Codex and the relationship between the Jerusalem Crown and the Codex, by Dr. Yosef Ofer, as well as a description of the production of the book by publisher Nahum Ben-Zvi. The articles are all published in Hebrew and in English translation.

CONTENTS

Sponsor's Personal Note    Thomas  J. Karger   1

The Bible and the Hebrew University of  Jerusalem     Menahem Ben-Sasson   3

The Making of a Book: Producing the Jerusalem Crown     Nahum Ben-Zvi   9

The History and Authority of the Aleppo Codex     Yosef  Ofer   25

Tiberias and the Masoretes; The History of the Aleppo Codex up to the Present; Its Uniqueness; Ben Asher, the Masorete; The Codex and Maimonides; Its Study and the Reconstructing of its Missing Portions; Masorah and Halakhah; Selected Bibliography.

The Jerusalem Crown and Its Editorial Principles    Yosef  Ofer   51

The Book of Books From Scroll to Codex and into Print     Mordechai Glatzer   61

Scroll: Gvil, Klaf, and  Dukhsustos; Betweenthe Firstand Tenth Centuries; 
Preparinga Text for Printand  Sefer Haatakah; Heavenly Labor (Melekhet  Shamayim); Excursuses; Bibliography.

Epilogue    Mordechai Glatzer   103

Glossary   107

List of  Illustrations   117

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