An ancient Hebrew Bible has just sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $38 million. The ancient text, written in around 900 AD, is the most complete early copy of the Hebrew Bible. The ...

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old and described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” has become the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible, which is more than 1000 years old, is being sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is "the earliest, most complete text of its kind," auction house Sotheby's said. It's estimated ...

The murder of Charlie Kirk in September not only widened the rift between political ideologies in America, it sparked ...

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The Codex Sassoon, which dates back more than a thousand years, could break records when it hits the auction block in May. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, ...

A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million at auction next month. The Shem Tov Bible is a 768-page illustrated text written on parchment ...

The Codex Sassoon, which measures 12 by 14 inches, dates to the late ninth or early tenth century. Sotheby's At more than 1,000 years old, the Codex Sassoon is the world’s earliest near-complete ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...