A leather-bound, handwritten Hebrew Bible believed to be around 1,100 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York, auction house Sotheby's said on Wednesday. The document offers a critical link bridging Jewish oral tradition to the modern Hebrew Bible Its price tag "reflects the profound power, influence, and significance of the Hebrew Bible, which is an indispensable pillar of …
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One of the world’s oldest surviving bible manuscripts will be placed in the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, has sold for $38m in New York on Wednesday. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased by Alfred …
CNN — A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old and described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” has become the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. Courtesy of Sotheby's Mintz described the Codex Sassoon, which includes 792 parchment pages — made from animal skins — and weighs about 26.5 pounds, as a …