This $50 Million Bible Could Be The Most Valuable Text Ever Sold At Auction | Forbes
The Codex Sassoon, a 10th century Hebrew Bible, goes up for sale at Sotheby’s in May and could become the most valuable book ever sold at auction.
"It’s one of the world’s greatest treasures.” Sharon Liberman Mintz, a senior Judaica specialist at Sotheby’s, says of the Codex Sassoon, which goes up for auction in May. But for now, the thousand-year-old Hebrew Bible is stored in what looks like a supersized shoebox stuffed with paper, on a crowded table in a nondescript room at the auction house’s New York headquarters. Hardly a glamorous setting for one of the most valuable books in the world.
It's not until Liberman Mintz and a colleague lift it-as gingerly as one can raise a 26-pound, six-inch thick stack of centuries-old parchment-that the true heft of the Codex apparent.
Already boasting the highest pre-auction estimate of a book or manuscript ($30 million to $50 million), the Codex Sassoon could become the most expensive book or manuscript ever sold at auction when it hits the block this spring. That title is currently held by a first edition of the United States Constitution that sold for $43.2 million in 2021 to billionaire Ken Griffin.
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Thank you for explaining the lack of gloves!
Sasson codex is treasaure! Many Universities and theology courses did not know Sassoon. It show message with vowels, include name Yehovah God... this so fantastic! Gratitude for IHBMR for digitizing it.
God and Jesus christ has been the truth is the truth is always going to be the truth amen amen and amen✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
@tundeadejimi2479
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Religion is a delusional way of thinking imagine thinking your life now is some test and that amargeddon is coming to destroy the earth. How come amargeddon hasn't come yet since all these years
@TerryCrosslin
8 ай бұрын
Not hardly!
Scary to think anyone can just buy it
@royroy333
Жыл бұрын
Exactly what i thought upon seeing it... 50 M is not such a huge amount of money. There are enough antisemic millioners (persons, groups or even countries) who would easily buy it just for the sake of destroying or tarnish it.
@fredgillespie5855
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Not everyone can afford £30m
@MrBadintentionss
Жыл бұрын
scarier to think how many people read it and believe everything in it 👍
@ritchiemartinez338
11 ай бұрын
🤡 @@MrBadintentionss
@beckyd6050
2 ай бұрын
This is not just a regular Bible! No amount of money is too much for this manuscript!🙂
I hope that they paid a lot of money to the person they got this from.
Shalom, oh That is what beautiful, extraordinary, excellent, magnificent means ..I want to Buy it, if My Abba Father provides for it. Alleluyah. I wonder, where are The 15 books you mentioned that are missing. ? Shalom
Awesome,great share!
God bless❤✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
It’s funny how a Holy book of God has price tag 💔
@kathrynoneill81
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Don't be silly. The words cannot be contained by paper!
Our God is Awesome
~ Prosper Williams ❤.
I’d only pay that much for the oldest manuscripts, not a 1000 yr old one. That’s barely scratching histories surface
Such a cool book
why would you even sell this ? This should be preserved! Its history!
I claim it now 💯
$50,000,000.00? This has got to be the irony of the ages. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, here's the disclaimer in the form of a question. "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Even if the person who could afford this lived 200 years, it's just a fleeting moment compared to eternity. He'd profit a great deal more by 'reading with understanding' the free online version. Oh, the irony.
@ludastout2852
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Dr Faustus... The author said it all in 16th century.
@maxsavage3998
Жыл бұрын
They were propping it up to sell for 50mil instead it sold for a measely 38.1m they failed
The fact that this has Hebrew vowel pointings (or Niqqud) does not mean that we know every single word. There have been some decisions made on exactly what word was originally meant, and some of the decisions do not make sense but were put in to point away from scripture which talks about the coming Messiah.
It's pronounced codex LESTER. How can she be an expert and not know how to say the name of the book she's basing her valuation on?
30 Millon Dollar USA ,in Auction. Saludos &By . #DollarCash.
She’s just touching it all over?????
@kathrynoneill81
Жыл бұрын
Sanitzed her hands until they wrinkled.
@bbarker246
Жыл бұрын
@@kathrynoneill81 I heard the explanation too. I think it’s because the item in subject is SO rare. Nothing personal
Historian couldn't use gloves when handling the Bible ? Smh
@odiousfox355
Жыл бұрын
It's literally explained in the video.
@garybood6122
Жыл бұрын
@@odiousfox355 It is considered disrespectful to touch pages bare handed while asking $30,000,000.00 for it. Disgusting to see their manners in public.
Its for rich OT believers that cant understand the red letter Bible which in truth worth more.
Crazy to think that there's nowhere in that book that says it's okay to almost exclusively kill the children of your enemies in an act of "defense". Lol wild.
Its pricessless
$50 million for holy hebrew fanfiction. Just imagine all the homeless people uttering some prayer while they starve.
@DailydoseBri
5 ай бұрын
Lol fan fiction ? Someone I dated tried to sacrifice me, did witchcraft on me my health was getting bad but the Moment I repented and prayed to Jesus he took all that witchcraft off of me, healed me and gave me my life back, repaired my relationships with my enemies and healed our relationships, got me away from the witch I dated and gave me a new job!he is amazing and real Jesus is lord and we are in the end of times we’re in the end! repent while you still have time
Bill Gates? Tells me all I need to know......
"people of many religion and faiths look at it and feel deep connection" Like how, lmao. There are probably 2 people out of a billion people who can understand Hebrew. So I would just double it and give it to the next person.
I’m the first!
First
The greatest 🐂💩 story ever told George Carlin!
Only satanic willing to pay then mock them
@satanofficial3902
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@satanofficial3902
Жыл бұрын
"When raccoons are happy, then everyone is happy." 🦝🦝🦝 ---Albert Einstein
@satanofficial3902
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes! 👽
It only sold for 38.1. You greedy people tried to jack up the price for Gods word. Dont mess with his Word