It is planned to be sold in May for about 30-50 million dollars. The book may be the most expensive historical document in the history of sales.
Sotheby’s puts world’s oldest Hebrew Bible on sale. The auction will take place in New York. The book is more than 1100 years old. The New York Times reported it.
The Holy Scriptures are called the Code of Sassoon. It dates from the end of the 9th – beginning of the 10th century.
The Sassoon Code contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. This book is missing about five leaves, which include the first ten chapters of Genesis.
It will be noted that the original Bible consisted of 400 parchment sheets.
It is also known that the Code of Sassoon was shown to the public only once – at the British Museum in 1982. And now it can be seen in London, Tel Aviv, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York.
The book is currently owned by a Swiss financier.
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Recall that earlier in the caves in the area of the Dead Sea, fragments of a scroll with biblical texts were found, which are more than two thousand years old.
25 thousand copies of the Bible were given for processing in the Kyiv region
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