spectacletourette t1_ja6szd5 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Owner of Irish hotel to sell ‘most influential book in human history’ for estimate of up to $50m Codex Sassoon: Jacqui Safra, who co-owns Parknasilla, in Kenmare, is to sell this copy of the Hebrew Bible at Sotheby’s in May. by LordRumBottoms
The codex in the news is nowhere near as culturally significant as the Codex Sinaiticus, but…
A while back, I saw the Codex Sinaiticus at the British Library. It was thrilling to be in the presence of this cultural treasure. As an atheist, I consider it to be like any Bible; a collection of myths, legends, poetry and unreliable history written without any divine inspiration, but it would take a special combination of crassness and ignorance to look on this object and have no thought other than… “fairy tales”.
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