Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38.1 million

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M. Hawbaker
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Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38.1 million May 18, 2023 22:47:08 GMT

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Post by M. Hawbaker on May 18, 2023 22:47:08 GMT

NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction.

Wednesday's winning bid for the Codex Sassoon was made via a donation by Alfred H. Moses, a former U.S. ambassador and president of the American Jewish Committee, who is giving it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38.1 million May 19, 2023 16:47:33 GMT

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Post by barb43 on May 19, 2023 16:47:33 GMT

This is pretty interesting!

I wonder where the rest of this collection is? I think it all needs to be somewhere scholars and others can study it to learn more of their own history.

The Codex Sassoon, written around the year 900, is named after a previous owner, David Solomon Sassoon, who acquired the Bible in 1929 and assembled one of the most significant private collections of Judaica and Hebraica manuscripts of the 20th century.

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