BIBLE CODES
Are there messages hidden in the text of the Old Testament, foretelling major events of the past 3,000 years and prophesying what lies in the future? That's the claim of Michael Drosnin, whose book The Bible Code has shot up the bestseller lists and launched a millennium-fevered media frenzy.
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http://www.nsli.com/.../torah/ AN IMPARTIAL OPINION ON THE "TORAH CODES"
I recently read Michael Drosnin's new book, The Bible Code (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997). Being entranced by the concept but simultaneously disappointed at the author's casual style and handy buzzword-mongering, I hunted down and digested all the related resources on the Internet, including the original paper by Witztum, Rips, and Rosenberg that forms an appendix to Drosnin's book, a testimonial by an NSA cryptographer, and an analysis by a noted scholar of statistical pattern recognition. (Late news flash: an interesting refutation of the Bible codes phenomenon has recently been posted.)
Are there messages hidden in the text of the Old Testament, foretelling major events of the past 3,000 years and prophesying what lies in the future? That's the claim of Michael Drosnin, whose book The Bible Code has shot up the bestseller lists and launched a millennium-fevered media frenzy.
The Bible Codes phenomena, which had an unprecedented coverage in the media, is based on the idea of Equidistant Letter Sequences (or ELS) which are embedded within a given text. Orthodox Jews believe that God dictated the Torah, (the first 5 books of the Bible), to Moses, letter by letter, and that encrypted in the text are names and events. Recently, researchers in Israel discovered a staggering phenomena of hidden codes in the Hebrew text of Old Testament that reveal an astonishing knowledge of events and personalities that cannot be explained unless God inspired the writers to record His precise words. The existence of the "hidden codes" phenomenon was first published by Professor Eliyahu Rips along with his colleagues Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg. They researched into the seemingly unique patterns encoded in the Book of Genesis. Scanning the text by computer using a scientific method called Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS) has disclosed that "hidden" in the Torah text are words or meaningful combinations of letters. For example, it has been found that the word appears at the beginning of both the books of Genesis and Exodus, with an equidistance in both cases of 50 letters, starting from the first occurrence of the letter in each book. Mathematicians have calculated that the probability of this occurring randomly, and not by deliberate design, is less than one in three millions.
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What would convince you that God exists? A miraculous recovery from a fatal illness? Or would that prove only the astonishing resilience of the body? An atheist friend struck by lightning? Could be mere coincidence. But how about scientific evidence--rigorously tested, peer-reviewed, unrefuted scientific evidence--that the Bible prophesies events that occurred thousands of years after it was written?
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The following challenge was made by Michael Drosnin: (regarding The Bible Codes)
When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them.
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