A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts sold for $38 million in New York on Wednesday. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten ...
The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible ... It’s the earliest surviving manuscript of the Hebrew Bible that has all 24 books — the books that make up what Christians refer to as the Old ...
The sale surpassed the $30.8 million that Microsoft founder ... The manuscript is also considered to predate the Leningrad ...
The Bible resurfaced in 1929 and was offered for sale to David Solomon Sassoon, a scholar with a collection of Hebrew manuscripts. He purchased the Bible and it was named the Codex Sassoon for him.
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible thought to be the world's oldest and most complete surviving copy of biblical manuscripts sold ...
A 1,000-year old Hebrew Bible described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” has sold at ...
By Jennifer Schuessler The oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sold at Sotheby’s for $ ... The earliest is a deed of sale from around 1000 A.D., indicating that it was sold by Khalaf ben Abraham ...
It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, ...
The Bible was bought by former US diplomat Alfred Moses on behalf of an American nonprofit that will gift it to the ANU ...
The sale surpassed the $30.8 million that ... is also considered to predate the Leningrad Codex, the oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible text in its entirety, and dated to the early eleventh ...
A book believed to be the earliest and most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible was sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday in New ...
