A thousand-year-old Hebrew Bible, the oldest known near-complete, was bought at auction Wednesday in New York for $38.1 million. The Sassoon Codex, named after its best-known owner, David Solomon Sassoon (died 1942), was purchased by former U.S.
ambassador and philanthropist Alfred Moses and his family. The Bible, which dates from the tenth century AD, or even the end of the ninth century, had been exhibited before the sale in this museum located on the campus of Tel Aviv University.