JERUSALEM (Reuters) - One of the most treasured collections of ancient Hebrew manuscripts and books will be digitized and available for public view online under an agreement by the state libraries of ...

Created in the middle of the 13th century, the Ambrosian Tanakh is the earliest extant Hebrew manuscript to feature zoocephalic, or animal-headed, figures. The book includes an extraordinary pair of ...

David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving Hebrew manuscripts, a bible dating back more than 1,000 years, will soon be available online in a joint project with The British Library in London, the ...

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem have jointly acquired a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript. The Mishneh Torah is a rare manuscript with ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The ...

BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 1,100-year-old Sassoon Codex, the oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible in private hands, is scheduled for auction at Sotheby’s on May 17, 2023. The Sassoon Codex is ...

The adage “never judge a book by its cover” could have been coined to describe the work we are highlighting this month: Sermones Thesauri Novi de Tempore, by Peter Paludanus, Patriarch of Jerusalem ...

Codex Sassoon, the earliest and most complete surviving manuscript of the Hebrew Bible ever discovered in book form, is being offered up for sale for the first time in over three decades. Sotheby's ...

The author of a 10th-century collection of scriptures has been identified as the same scribe who wrote the earliest known complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. The finding could influence future ...

In 1883, 15 manuscript fragments found near the Dead Sea caused an international sensation. Written in ancient Hebrew script, they were said to be an alternate version of the Book of Deuteronomy. They ...