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by Daniel R. Schwartz Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries 504 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in, 2 b-w illus. Hardcover 9780300159936 Published: Tuesday, 26 Apr 2022 $85.00 A new translation and commentary on I Maccabees that offers a fresh interpretation of the author’s values and purpose First Maccabees, composed in the second century BCE, chronicles four decades of clashes between Hellenistic Syria and Judea, from Antiochus Epiphanes’s ascent to the throne in 175 BCE to the Hasmoneans’ establishment of an ind
Known as the Codex Sassoon, the book — which was written by a single Jewish scribe on 400 pages of parchment about 1,100 years ago — will be on view at Sotheby’s auction house (1334 York Ave.) by appointment through Tuesday, May 16. The following day, it will be sold at auction and is estimated to fetch between $30 million to $50 million — possibly making it the most expensive book or document ever sold. [...] For background on the Codex Sassoon, the Sassoon family and their antiquarian collections, and the