Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Sells for $38.1 Million

NY Times ^ | May 17, 2023, 2:30 p.m. ET | By Jennifer Schuessler

[Ezekiel]

The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late 9th or early 10th century, was bought at Sotheby’s by the American Friends of the ANU — Museum of the Jewish People.

The oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sold at Sotheby’s for $38.1 million on Wednesday, one of the highest prices for a book or historical document ever sold at auction.

The volume, known as the Codex Sassoon, includes all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, minus about eight leaves, including the first 10 chapters of Genesis. Researchers have dated it to the late ninth or early 10th century, making it the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible known to exist.

[No name given]

Wow.

[dirtymac]

I clicked on the article before realizing that it was from the NY Times.

Now I question it’s accuracy.

[Phinneous]

Cool! What translation did they use for Isaiah 7:14? ;)

[Ezekiel]

Buyer’s premium:

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On May 17, Tel Aviv’s ANU–Museum of the Jewish People bought Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.

(Although the Hebrew volume is a higher price, the da Vinci manuscript is pricier when adjusted for inflation; with the buyer’s premium, a charge in addition to the hammer price, the sale totaled $38.1 million.)

https://www.jns.org/tel-aviv-anu-museum-of-the-jewish-people-buys-codex-sassoon-for-33-5-million/

[Tell It Right]

I’m a Christian like you, but IMHO Isaiah 7:14 is a bad argument for saying the OT prophesied Jesus. The word “al-maw” in that verse translated to “virgin” has multiple literal definitions, including “young woman” or “marrying age woman”.

[Phinneous]

More difficult is “hara” “is pregnant.”

[Ezekiel]

Cool! What translation did they use for Isaiah 7:14? ;)

Funny you should ask. I had hit the Sotheby's site at 14:06 EDT and there was some misc. background chatter as it was still live, but then it ended. All done already.

I was late going over there because [on a seemingly unrelated topic] I was busy looking over the Kaduri note, and comparing the Preamble to the US Constitution, anu ha-am, specifically the "anu", we.

This morning I had remarked so someone that it will be interesting to see who's the buyer.

"ANU".

Well, you know how it goes concerning the r"t of the Mashiach:

"The people (ha-am) will rise and prove that his (their) word and his (their) Torah stands."

Ha-am is singular, so there's a double option on the antecedent.

The people or their national personification, so to speak. Always good intel standing tall at the Davidson Center.

"USA". 363 "HaMashiach" ft. high.

Columbia the CM is the "dove", because the little book of Jonah is a short work on a particular subject (you). The You Essay.

[woodbutcher1963]

oy vey

[jjotto]

Yeah, ya know, Christians like you need an English translation, right? /s

[Phinneous]

What they don’t know is that typical Pesach (Passover) food shopping is about $38M.

[Ezekiel]

Hi there, Phinneous. I didn't know you were a Christian. 😉

Alma. I just posted about her. She's one of those "Aha!" people, flying overhead with the light, a rope, and a School Book. SB... Sassoon Bible? 😇

[Phinneous]

It means “soul” in Spanish... so you can riff on

Nefesh
Ruach
Neshama
Chaya
Yechida

I think I saw you do something similar not long ago right?

Phinneous is Jewish and is as fiery as Numbers 25:8 ;)

[jjotto]

All Christians are the true Israel, right? Who owns the Temple Mount?

[Ezekiel]

Yay, fiery one!

People sign up for missions and then they can't back out when it's not what they could have ever imagined in the wildest dreams.

I mean someone's got to stop the plague, because there's so much bad intel out there. That stuff is entrenched.

Eliyahu, HaNavi. ♪

It's like I've said about the Messiah... if he believed the settled doctrines, he'd never be able to recognize himself. Well, there's a good reason for everything. All in good time.

Don't ya just love a big surprise?

Alma:

Description
English: Entrance sign for the village of Alma, New Brunswick. Note that the letter "L" is missing from the word welcome, with the sign now reading "We come to Alma"

[Ezekiel]

Have fun over here.

[Ezekiel]

This is great. See, all connected like I mentioned on the pun thread.

https://www.anumuseum.org.il/about-anu/

I mean just look at the sign, how it reads straight across: anu ha-am, like the famous first words I was looking at while the auction was in progress.

Now if you want to ring them up...

+972 3-500-8080

It's the MSFC zip code, with 000 worked in (worst combo lock code ever, but René Descartes would love it. Three 'Cheers'!).

It's just like what Rav Kaduri wrote with his own signature,

"באתי על החתום"

= 972

You've no doubt read the account of the priests in the wood storage area, the one noticing that a paver (cf. 'continuum') was an odd one out from the others. It was the tipoff to the location of the *ארה"ב* that was lost in a US government warehouse, swallowed up by acronyms.

Odd one out. Makes plain sense, "OUTATIME":

xyz... and t.

~ EZ

[Ezekiel]

“The buyer was ambassador Alfred H. Moses and is being gifted to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.”

https://news.artnet.com/market/codex-sassoon-sothebys-33-million-2303575

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ezekiel.

• World's Oldest Near-Complete Hebrew Bible Goes to Auction [02/20/2023]
• Sotheby's Hopes for Record Sale of Ancient Hebrew Bible [03/22/2023]

[Zionist Conspirator]

The volume, known as the Codex Sassoon, includes all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, minus about eight leaves, including the first 10 chapters of Genesis.

Wow. Those higher critics got started early.