Jerusalem Crown

Jerusalem Crown

The Jerusalem Crown: Keter Yerushalayim (כתר ירושלים "The Jerusalem Crown"), is a text of the Tanakh printed in Jerusalem in 2001, and is referred to in English as the Jerusalem Codex.

The text has been recognized as the official Bible of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) since 2001. Since its publication, it has been used to administer the oath of office to new presidents of the State of Israel. The text was edited according to the method of Mordechai Breuer under the supervision of Yosef Ofer, with additional proofreading and refinements since the Horev edition.

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Layout

Nahum Ben-Zvi, who conceived the idea of publishing the Jerusalem Crown, prepared the text of the Aleppo Codex for the press in a three-column layout, thus preserving the original layout of many of the most important Jewish manuscripts. The Jerusalem Crown was the first publication to return to this layout since the invention of the printing press. The project was made possible by the availability of computerized typesetting. The poetic passages in the Pentateuch and the Prophets are printed in the traditional layout (“half-bricks set over whole bricks”). The Song at the Sea is presented as a single unit, on a separate page. The books of Job, Proverbs, and Psalms have been printed in a different layout each verse of these books being presented in a single line and divided into two hemistichs (according to their poetic meter); this layout enables even readers unfamiliar with the biblical accentuation marks to read the text correctly. However, it also dictated a change in the typography of the pages compared with the rest of the Bible.

Font

A new typeface, called Jerusalem Crown, was designed specially for this Bible by Zvi Narkiss. The typeface was modeled on the original letter of the Aleppo Codex. Considerable thought went into the design of this clear, easily legible letter.

Published in the spring of 2001 as an act in behalf the Aleppo Codex. The edition is based on the latest scholarship concerning the biblical text and on the last version edited by Mordechai Breuer, the recipient of the 1999 Israel Prize in Bible Scholarship.

References

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  1. ^ "עדכוני rss". Cms.education.gov.il. http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/TashnagTashsab/TASNAG_TASNAT_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashnat. Retrieved 2011-09-23. 
  2. ^ "Jerusalem Crown". Jerusalem Crown. http://www.jerusalem-crown.co.il/website_en/index.asp. Retrieved 2011-09-23. 

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