Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

The identity of the Nephilim is one of the oldest debates in biblical studies. Some early Jewish texts like 1 Enoch describe them as monstrous offspring of heavenly beings and human women, towering ...

For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...

The Hebrew Bible or usually known as the Tanakh is widely considered as holy scripture in Judaism which is also a significant book for Christianity, Islam, and even for the Baha’i Faith. It contains ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, ...

(New York Jewish Week) — After stops in London, Tel Aviv and other locales, the world’s oldest nearly-complete Hebrew Bible will be on view in New York City beginning on Sunday. Known as the Codex ...

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[Sharon Liberman Mintz, Senior Judaica and Hebraica Consultant, Sotheby’s] "Codex Sassoon is the earliest, most complete Hebrew bible extant. It was written around the year 900 either in the land of ...

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The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...