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One of the rarest books of all times was sold by Sotheby’s yesterday for 38 million dollars and will be donated to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.  It is the Codex Sasson, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, written around the year 900 and is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts. Dr. Neriah Klein, scholar and lecturer in biblical studies and currently in charge of the Masoretic biblical manuscripts in the Hebrew University bible project, said he was glad it was no longer in private hands, even though he personally has been given the privilege to examine it. He told reporter Arieh O’Sullivan, that the Sassoon Codex actually met with the other ancient Aleppo Codex which originates from the same 10th century, but was more complete so fetched such a high price. (photo: John Minchillo/AP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.