Hebrew Bible purchased for $US38.1 million for display at Jewish museum
New York, USRNS The Codex Sassoon, a late ninth or early 10th-century book Sotheby’s has dubbed the “earliest, most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible,” was sold for $US38.1 million on Wednesday afternoon to American Friends of the ANU, Museum of the Jewish People. It will become part of the museum’s core exhibition and permanent collection in Tel […]
Sotheby’s hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible
JerusalemAP One of the oldest surviving Biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours – for a cool $US30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York in May. Its […]
Sight-Seeing: Faith and true crime – the morals of writing about seekers and grisly deaths
True-crime writer MARK I PINSKY, in an article published on Religion News Service, says the Bible offers an “ethical lens” through which to judge modern wrongdoing, and the nature of justice…
Author of 10th century Hebrew Biblical text is identified
RNS The author of a 10th-century collection of Scriptures has been identified as the same scribe who wrote the the earliest known complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. The finding could influence future translations of the Hebrew Scriptures, also known as the Old Testament, according to a news release from Tyndale House, Cambridge, which published […]
THE THIEF
We had two things happen to us in the same week. Some grub broke into our house and stole our iPad and iPhone. It’s quite unnerving having someone rumble through your house! We wanted to cry, ‘why us?!’ Then, on Sunday, someone shared about the life of a sponsor child and their impression of rich […]