"Rare Hebrew Bible Fetches Record-Breaking $38.1 Million at Auction"
The Codex Sassoon, the oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible known to survive, was sold at Sotheby's for $38.1 million to the American Friends of ANU - Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, thanks to a donation from former ambassador Alfred H. Moses and his family. The Codex Sassoon will be donated to the museum and be part of the core exhibition. The volume includes all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, minus about eight leaves, and researchers have dated it to the late ninth or early 10th century, making it the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible known to exist.