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The oldest surviving Yale seal may be found on the 1749 master’s diploma of Reverend Ezra Stiles, who went on to serve as Yale’s president (1778-1795).
Candida Moss wanted scholar Raymond Brown's 1971 commentary on the Gospel According to John from the illustrious Anchor Bible Series, then published by Doubleday.
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In “The Bible: A Global History,” Bruce Gordon chronicles the Christian Bible’s progression from a collection of ancient Hebrew and Greek texts—our word “Bible” is derived from the ...
The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction ...
As Sotheby's celebrates 275 years, a look at its past and its future 04:59. The oldest known Bible is going up for auction at Sotheby's this year and the auction house expect it will go for $30 ...
The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for ...
The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will go on display in London next week before an auction in May where it could sell for up to $50 million, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.
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.
The earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible ever discovered, the Codex Sassoon, is set to be sold at auction by Sotheby's in May. Experts expect it could bring as much as $50 million.
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 Codex Sassoon 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible on display at the Tel Aviv's ANU Museum of the Jewish People for a week-long exhibition of the manuscript, part of a whirlwind worldwide tour of the ...