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 ...

It’s the earliest surviving manuscript of the Hebrew Bible that has all 24 books — the books that make up what Christians refer to as the Old Testament — with punctuation, vowels and accents.

A 1,000-year old Hebrew Bible described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” has sold at ...

The Codex Sassoon sold for one of the highest prices ever for a manuscript at auction and will be displayed at the ANU Museum ...

A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible thought to be the world's oldest and most complete surviving copy of biblical manuscripts sold ...

A book believed to be the earliest and most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible was sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday in New ...

By Jennifer Schuessler The oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sold at Sotheby’s for $ ... The earliest is a deed of sale from around 1000 A.D., indicating that it was sold by Khalaf ben Abraham ...

The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible has been bought at Sotheby's New York for $38.1m (£30.6m), becoming the most valuable manuscript sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is thought to have been ...

The Bible resurfaced in 1929 and was offered for sale to David Solomon Sassoon, a scholar with a collection of Hebrew manuscripts. He purchased the Bible and it was named the Codex Sassoon for him.

The Bible was bought by former US diplomat Alfred Moses on behalf of an American nonprofit that will gift it to the ANU ...

The oldest Hebrew Bible in the world has sold ... Sotheby’s hopes for record US$30 million sale of ancient Hebrew Bible The only other nearly complete Hebrew Bible to survive from the tenth ...

The sale surpassed the $30.8 million that ... is also considered to predate the Leningrad Codex, the oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible text in its entirety, and dated to the early eleventh ...