RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – One of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts has sold for $38 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was bought on behalf of the American Friends of the ANU museum in TelAviv where it will be displayed.
ANU is the Hebrew word for we.
The Associated Press reports that the manuscript dates from between 880-960 CE and was once owned by an Iraqi Jewish business magnate, David Solomon Sassoon, hence its name.
A Sotheby’s spokesperson said it would make a grand and permanent return to Israel, displayed for the world to see.