Sunday, July 30, 9:30 AM
Bagels & ...
10:00 AM Presentation about the Codex Sassoon by Sharon Lieberman Mintz
The Codex Sassoon has been traced back more than 1,000 years to the land of Israel or Syria through scholarship, carbon-dating and inscriptions. It is the earliest most complete Hebrew Bible.
Sharon Liberman Mintz is the Curator of Jewish Art at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and specializes in the fields of Hebrew illuminated manuscripts and rare printed books. Over the course of 36 years at the JTS Library, she has curated more than 45 exhibitions and co-authored eleven exhibition catalogs. Since 1995, Sharon has also served as the Senior Consultant for Judaica and Hebraica at Sotheby's, cataloging and appraising decorated Hebrew manuscripts, books, ketubbot and megillot for Judaica sales worldwide.
