The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible has been bought at Sotheby's New York for $38.1m (£30.6m), becoming the most valuable manuscript sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is thought to have been ...

Specifically, he incorporated linguistic theory from studies of language contact to understand why the authors of the Hebrew Bible borrowed linguistic features from the languages of their conquerors ...

The manuscript is the world’s oldest nearly complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. It was handwritten ... because they will not be used in everyday study. Not so, he said, with this item.