A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world's most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo. Crusaders held it ...

JERUSALEM — A quest is underway on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world’s most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo.

The Bible is named after its most notable owner, David Solomon Sassoon, who died in 1942. Sassoon knew the prayers for the entire liturgical year and practically the entire Hebrew Bible by heart ...

Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor," i.e., brief, prophets). Here again, it's important to understand how these developed.

A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world's most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo.

A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world’s most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo.

The Bible that just went on display is one of a dozen roughly complete Hebrew manuscripts that are this old and contain the full Torah, and only one of two in the Americas. The other, located at ...

The Codex Sassoon, which contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible and dates to the year 900, is expected to auction for $30-50 million.

A Hebrew Bible considered to be the earliest nearly complete version of the pivotal book could end up being the most expensive historical document ever to land on the auction block, according to ...

A Millennium-Old Hebrew Bible Could Break $43 Million Record Set by U.S. Constitution Sotheby’s seeks to sell book for between $30 million and $50 million as historical documents increasingly ...