A rare 14th-century ornate Hebrew Bible written during the golden age of Spain will be put on public display after being sold for $6.9m (£5.3m). The Bible, written by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312AD ...
Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.
[Sharon Liberman Mintz, Senior Judaica and Hebraica Consultant, Sotheby’s] "Codex Sassoon is the earliest, most complete Hebrew bible extant. It was written around the year 900 either in the land of ...
A 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible featuring Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic styles, is being sold in September at Sotheby’s by Jacqui Safra, heir of a Syrian Lebanese-Swiss banking ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, ...
The 'Codex Sassoon' Bible is displayed at Sotheby's in New York in February 2023 AFP A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record for the ...
The first Bible in Hebrew characters ever to be printed in Palestine will be issued here soon, it was disclosed today by Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University. Palestine, the land in ...
For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...
RNS — President Barack Obama used a Bible belonging to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim member of Congress, took the oath of office on the Quran. And on ...
Yosef S. Razin in an article in the Times of Israel titled “Avraham: Guilt and Faith in the Fiery Furnace” November 5, 2020 says: “Abraham in the fiery furnace, a well known story though it does not ...