The 7.34-meter-long manuscript, discovered in 1947 at Qumran, dates to the second century BCE and is the oldest nearly complete copy of a book from the Hebrew Bible.

The 1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon will become part of the core exhibition and permanent collection of the ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv,

The Aleppo Codex, believed to be the world's oldest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible, has been listed in the Memory of the World Register.