Some 1,700 years ago, a scribe living ... books of the Bible over a 40-year period. Today, the rare liturgical text is known as the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, one of the world’s oldest books.

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament ... originally contained the entire text of the Christian Bible. The manuscript also includes the Apocrypha, 14 ...

The oldest Hebrew Bible in the world was sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $38 million. The ancient leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume, which dates from around 900 AD., ...

ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv is expecting some 10,000 visitors to see the Codex Sassoon The oldest ... Bible is on display in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before its sale at an ...

The sale surpassed the $30.8 million that Microsoft founder ... The manuscript is also considered to predate the Leningrad Codex, the oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible text in its entirety, ...

Sotheby's said the Codex Sassoon could exceed the sale price of a first ... the Hebrew Bible is also followed in parts by Christians, who call it the Old Testament, as well as Muslims.