Codex Sassoon 1053 is not exactly the oldest known complete Hebrew bible. So how can we explain its astronomical price?
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The biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of reparations after enslavement.
Many within the political left and right draw on the Bible to inform their views on immigration, but neglect to take into account how foreigners were treated under the Roman Empire during the time of Jesus.
Research on under-catalogued documents in Oxford sheds new light on one of history’s most influential books.
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Fellow in English Literature, University of Birmingham
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Docteur ès sciences historiques et philologiques, maître de conférences HDR, membre honoraire de l’IUF, Université de Strasbourg
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Assistant Professor of the New Testament, Vanguard University
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Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame