David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...
BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 1,100-year-old Sassoon Codex, the oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible in private hands, is scheduled for auction at Sotheby’s on May 17, 2023. The Sassoon Codex is ...
Written in the 10th century, the Aleppo Codex is the most ancient copy of the Jewish Bible. It had been kept in the Syrian town of Aleppo for centuries and was smuggled in the 1950s to Israel, where ...
It’s been a long journey for the brittle pieces of parchment inked more than 1,000 years ago along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The manuscript considered the most authoritative text of the Bible, ...