As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...
Like Jews, Samaritans claim to be the descendants of the ancient Israelites. The Bible presents David and Solomon’s reigns as a golden age in Israel’s history due to David’s military might ...
The Samaritan tablet, on view in New York starting Dec. 5, disappeared after last going up for sale in 2016. The oldest stone inscription of the Ten Commandments will go up for auction next month ...
It's missing the part about taking the name of the Lord in vain, which we Jews like to call the Third Commandment.
Then, rather than focusing on this tablet itself, the Sotheby’s catalog begins to focus on the significance of the original ...
An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text ...
A 1,500-year-old Byzantine tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on December 18, with an ...
An inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments -- claimed to be the world's oldest known extant example -- will go on auction ...
Good Samaritanism is good for society, even if some naysayers abide by the principle that “no good deed should go unpunished.
The issue was far less prominent 20 years ago when an American rabbi named Shaul Shimon Deutsch requested a license to export the ancient Samaritan tablet. The Israel Antiquities Authority agreed ...