Ghana's Komba people received their complete Bible after 16 years of dedicated translation work. Speaking during the launch ...

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The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, more than a thousand years old, will be auctioned off in May for up to €50 million. The Sassoon codex, named after its most famous owner, David Solomon ...

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 ...

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On October 5, 2023, an El Al flight from New York touched down in Israel, carrying an extraordinary piece of history. In the cockpit, a special suitcase held the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew ...

NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible manuscript to be displayed in NYC Codex Sassoon, valued at $30-$50 million, can be viewed by appointment at Sotheby’s auction house ahead of its sale By Lisa Keys 6 ...

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 ...

Though the word Bible comes from the Greek word biblios, meaning “scrolls,” the Bible was actually the first book to be printed by movable type (instead of being written by hand). Johann Gutenberg ...