The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible in the world, the Codex Sassoon, written more than a millennium ago, was auctioned at Sotheby’s on Wednesday for more than $38 million. That is the most ever ...

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The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late ninth or early 10th century, is set to be sold by Sotheby’s for an estimated $30 million to $50 million. By Jennifer Schuessler One day, about 1,100 ...

What is love? It’s a simple question that writers and artists have asked repeatedly through the centuries, from Bernard of Clairvaux and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop to Tina Turner and Haddaway. It’s also ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...

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 ...

For word nerds, the Book of Esther contains a special treat — the longest word in the Tanakh. Technically, v’ha’achshadrapanim and its eleven letters makes it the length champion of the entire Hebrew ...

Thanks for joining Part Four of our series “Moses in the New Testament.” Today, we conclude with the influence of Moses in the Scripture after Romans. If you missed the previous three studies, let’s ...

On January 21, 2018, Bible Scholar Nehemia Gordon and his team of researchers discovered the 1,000th Hebrew Bible manuscript containing the original name of God in Hebrew with vowels. For two hundred ...

Hebrews teaches us to read Psalm 110 as God’s own testimony that Christ is the divine Son who is better than angels, and the ...