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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.

This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Israelis to see the actual Codex Sassoon, in actual corporeal form. It should be interesting to see who turns up at ANU next week. 

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.

One of the oldest Hebrew Bibles, the 1,100-year-old script, is planned to sell for $30 million to $50 million. Learn more.

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts could sell for $30 million to $50 million at an auction.

The Codex Sassoon is a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible. Sothebys is putting it up for auction in New York in May for an estimated price of $30 million to $50 million.

It is one of only two manuscripts containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible — the Christian Old Testament — to have survived into the modern era.

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The Codex Sassoon, valued at $30-$50 million, can be viewed for free at Tel Aviv's Anu Museum ahead of its Sotheby's New York sale

Said to be one of the oldest in the world, the Hebrew Bible being auctioned by Sotheby’s is unlike any other.