A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn (The Rabbi Ben Mysteries, #2)

Rabbi Ben, hero of For Whom the Shofar Blows, is back—and more than ever, he's not your bubbe's rebbe. Lured to a clandestine meeting with the President of Israel, Ben is asked to find the long-missing third of the Aleppo Codex, the oldest and most authoritative copy of the Hebrew Bible—more than 1,000 years old and rivaled in historical importance only by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Intact until the 1947 sacking of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria, its surviving pages are now in the Hebrew M...