Aaron ben Moses ben Asher
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Aaron ben Moses ben Asher was a Jewish scholar and scribe from Tiberias, active around the 10th century CE. He is renowned for his meticulous work on the Masoretic text, the traditional Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible. Ben Asher's efforts involved standardizing the text, adding vowel signs and stress marks to ensure correct pronunciation and facilitate public reading.123
His most significant contribution is the Aleppo Codex, a complete Hebrew Bible that he corrected, punctuated, and furnished with Masoretic notes around 930 CE. This codex is considered the most important witness to Aaron ben Moses ben Asher's textual tradition, which became the authoritative version of the Hebrew Bible throughout Jewry.1
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