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 parchment ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible has just sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $38 million. The ancient text, written in around 900 AD, is the most complete early copy of the Hebrew Bible. The ...

BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 1,100-year-old Sassoon Codex, the oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible in private hands, is scheduled for auction at Sotheby’s on May 17, 2023. The Sassoon Codex is ...

David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...

The historic text is named after the original owner, David Solomon Sassoon, who purchased the book in 1929. The Iraqi-Jewish businessman reportedly filled his London home with a number of Jewish ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The ...

Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

On October 5, 2023, an El Al flight from New York touched down in Israel, carrying an extraordinary piece of history. In the cockpit, a special suitcase held the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew ...

JERUSALEM — 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, ...

NEW YORK - The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will go on display in London next week before an auction in May where it could sell for up to $50 million, Sotheby's said on Wednesday. If ...