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Masoretic scholar of Tiberias

Aharon ben Asher

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c. 900 CE

Masoretic scholar of Tiberias who produced the Aleppo Codex, the oldest surviving medieval manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, completed around 900.

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The Palestinian tradition stayed dominant in fixing the standard text of the Bible. The Masoretes of Tiberias, active in the eighth and ninth centuries, fixed the proper reading of the biblical text and supplied it with vowels and chanting signs. The Aleppo Codex, the oldest surviving medieval manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, was made by the Tiberian Masoretic sage Aharon ben Asher and finished about 900.