Oldest Hebrew Bible Bought for Israeli Museum for Over $38 Million
The Bible was purchased at an international auction by the "ANU" Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.
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The Bible was purchased at an international auction by the "ANU" Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.
It is set to be displayed at the ANU Museum in Israel
Oldest Most Complete Hebrew Bible Sells For $38m At Auction
1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon, one of world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, will be donated to museum in Israel
A book believed to be the earliest and most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible was sold for 38.1 million dollars on Wednesday in New York, auction house Sotheby’s said. The Codex Sassoon “contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible missing only 12 leaves and precedes the earliest entirely complete Hebrew Bible, the Leningrad