RARITY - MEDIEVAL BIBLE HANDWRITING, CODEX by BEN EZRA SYNAGOGUE, Egypt, c.1290

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**** CODEX by BEN EZRA ****
Medieval Bible Handwriting
BEN EZRA SYNAGOGUE
Egypt, c.1290
Sheep-Skin
*** Huge Manuscript on Sheep-Skin ***
Hebrew: בית כנסת בן עזרא‎; Arabic: معبد بن عزرا‎
The Ben Ezra Synagogue sometimes referred to as the
El-Geniza Synagogue (בית כנסת אל גניזה) or the
Synagogue of the Levantines (al-Shamiyin),
is situated
in the Fustat part of Old Cairo, Egypt.
According to
local folklore, it is located on the site
where baby Moses was found.
This was the synagogue whose genizaor store room
was found in the 19th century to contain a treasur…
It is the oldest and most important Jewish temple in Egypt as in the 19th
century a treasure was found in a hiding place for sacred books and
worn-out Torah scrolls containing thousands of rare documents that
recorded the history of Cairo’s community since the 11th during the
medieval era in Egypt which are now stored in England at Cambridge
University. It is rumored that the synagogue once held a copy of the
original Old Testament. It’s considered an important tourist attraction
after the departure of the majorit…
Country of origin Egypt
* handwritten from
Sofer (writing Scholar)
* Hundreds of crowns
* Old-Hebrew Handwriting
Use of the rare letters " Pai" and " Zai"
*over 700 years old manuscripts on sheep-skin
*Manuscript with a bird feather/spring (goose keel) and an
ink without metal additives
The age of this rare manuscript was dated and specified
by a specialist and professor in Russia (St.Petersburg)
to about 700 years old.
He is a consultant for ancient Hebrew books and manuscripts.
Rarity: Extremely rare
Age: over 700 years old
Complete Hebrew Bible manuscripts are only known from the 10th century AD, as the CODEX
LENINGRADENIS (1008 A.D. / today also sometimes referred to as CODEX PETROPOLITANUS).
This manuscript has been kept in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg since the middle of
the 19th century. The Codex Leningradensis is based on the modern scientific Hebrew Biblical
edition (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), on which most of today's Bible translations are based.
*** Maulbeerbaum-ink ***
*** on genuine skin of pure animals such as cattle, sheep,
goat or deer ***
*** ornaments, which are called also „crowns “ ***
*** Originale Manuscript of a trained writing scholar (Sofer) ***
The oldest existing Thorarolle comes of approximately 900 n. Chr.,
i.e. 1500 years, after the final version of the Thora had been written.
Contents:
Master fathers of Israel Abraham, Isaak and Jakob
Abraham:
central figure of the Tanachs and/or of Old Testament.
Exactly the same it is considered as a master father of the Arabs,
of whose son Ismael the prophet Islam, Muhammad, descends.
Afterwards it belongs together with his son Isaak and his grandchild
Jakob to the ore fathers, from whom according to Biblical excessive
quantity the twelve trunks of the people Israel came out.
Isaak:
central figure of the Jewish faith.He lived after the Biblical
narrations approximately in 19. Century v. Chr., however is
except-Biblically nothing over it well-known. Together with his
father Abraham and his son Jakob he is ranked among the ore
fathers of Israel.
Jakob:
central figure for the Jews and the Christianity. Its history is
told in the 1st book Mose. Its parents were Isaak and Rebekka,
Esau were its twin brother.
A Geniza (hebr. גניזה gənīzā) a locked cavity is for the keeping of retired
Jewish liturgical writings. Here any longer readable Tora roles or other texts,
which one did not use no more, were not put down locked. Texts, which
contain the Tetragrammaton (JHWH) or other God names, may not be simply
thrown away. Thus important documents of the Jewish Liturgie and Jewish
history outlasted.
The probably most famous Geniza is in Cairo
and 1890 with a renovation of the Ben Esra
synagogue was discovered, which had been
built in the year 882.
In a seperate cavity under the roof, which was
to be reached only by means of a ladder,
200,000 documents and also letters, which
give Jerusalems (crusades) starting from the
year 800, as for example the book of the
wisdom (Old Testament) in Hebrew language
or the famous Damascus writing, which was
found later also in Qumran.
They offer on
this
RARITY
MEDIEVAL BIBLE- HANDWRITING,
CODEX by BEN EZRA - 13TH CENTURY !