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Sotheby’s To Auction Off 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible For Up To $50 Million
Sotheby’s To Auction Off 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible For Up To $50 Million

The Codex Sassoon has 24 books divided into the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings, abbreviated as TaNaKH in Hebrew. About 15 chapters are missing, including 10 from Genesis, but it is far more complete than the Aleppo Codex. Another medieval Bible text, the Leningrad Codex, is “entirely complete,” but is more than a century younger than Sassoon 1053, Sotheby’s said.

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