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Alfred Moses: ‘I bought the Sassoon Codex for the Jewish people, not for me’

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The Israelites famously declared in the book of Exodus at Mount Sinai, “We will do, and then we will hear.” Rabbinic tradition has taken that to mean that they accepted the Torah sight unseen,...
Codex Sassoon sells for $33.5 million, a record for a book sold at auction, at Sotheby's in New York on May 17, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million

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First, there was the possibility that Renaissance man par excellence Leonardo da Vinci was Jewish. Now, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, beat da Vinci’s Codex Leicester as the...
The Codex Sassoon (late ninth to early 10th century). Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible to be displayed at Tel Aviv museum

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The oldest near-complete edition of the Hebrew Bible, a manuscript from a millennium ago, will be on display on March 23-29 at the ANU—Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, the museum announced...