Shrine of the Book
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The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, among other texts.
Billy Rose Art Garden
Shrine of the Book
Barack Obama viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2013
Aleppo Codex
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The Aleppo Codex is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the city of Tiberias in the tenth century CE under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, and was endorsed for
Shrine of the Book
…Hebrew: היכל הספר, Heikhal HaSefer) is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, among other texts. The building was constructed in 1965, funded by the family of David Samuel Gottesman, a Hungarian-Jewish philanthropist. The building…
Closeup of Aleppo Codex, Joshua 1:1
Page from Aleppo Codex, Deuteronomy
Photograph of missing page
Exterior view of the Shrine of the Book