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Summary: You're Serious?!
Review: OK, you've used computers to fool around with Hebrew to come up with this. Allow me to ask some questions.
The author allegedly met with Arafat. If you take Arabic and the Koran, what do you come up with?
Continuing in that light, If you take Sanskrit and Hindu writings, what appears?
Now take any written language. Tibetan and Buddhism, Japanese and Shinto and Buddhism.
Are all these going to add up?
The author seems to want to go out and present himself as the worlds savior. He is the only thing between survival and total destruction.
The scariest part would be people in strategic places beliving this.
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Summary: Good Science fiction
Review: It's a very simple matter to run an internet search on any of the references or contacts mentioned Mr. Drosnin's book.Aside from the multitudes of physicists,linguists,mathematicians and bible scholars who refute virtually all of Mr. Drosnin's conclusions (not to mention his methadologies),the most interesting thing to me is the public statements made by all the players in his book e.g Rips,Gans et al who all distance themselves from Mr. Drosnin and his sensationalism. With friends like those..! A silly book. Nonetheless,it has redeeming qualities. It is a fast paced,good read and it makes sense(in a science fiction kind of way) and it certainly offers up food for thought.
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Summary: The Countdown
Review: This is a class follow up to The Bible Code.
When I received this in the mail I stayed up all night reading until the end.What a divinely interesting journey this book take you on. I stand in awe.
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Summary: Bible code----ZERO STARS
Review: Matthew 24:40,42,44; 2Timothy 3:1-5; Hebrews 9:28; Matthew 24:4-14; Timothy 4:1-3;
Jude 17-21 Here are some signs of the end according the Bible. If you do not believe in the Bible,Why? Then would you base a book on decoding it??? Jesus said,"Take heed that no one deceives you". True Believers know that the Bible is where you find answers, NOT from non-believers.
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Summary: awesome scary better than the first book
Review: Bible Code II is even better than The Bible Code. It's already a New York Times Bestseller, and I bet it will soon be # 1. It starts with a riveting story of 9/11, perfectly encoded in the 3000 year old text of the Bible, and it counts down to the real Armageddon, a possible nuclear world war. This book might save us -- it can't be ignored. And it's a great read.
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Summary: Food for the Gullible
Review: I received this book as a Christmas present and after having read it am still not sure about one basic aspect. Is the author honestly deluded or is he perpetuating a hoax for the sake of money?
It has been amply shown that any book can be massaged to come up with any meaning one wants. The basic assumption that the Bible was written in its current form 3000 years ago is untenable and since Hebrew writings contained originally no vowels there is no limit to which one can let one's fantasy roam to detect the words and their meanings one wants to ascribe to them. One small example: I don't know Hebrew but I do know that "obelisk" is not a Hebrew word. It comes comes from the Greek where it stands for "spit," a sharp tipped object. To read modern meanings into ancient writings shows naivetee to say the least.
The problem with the book is that some people will not only be impressed by the message but may act on it. Just as some Christians and Jews try to hasten the arrival of the Messiah on the basis of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings.
The world is a sufficiently dangerous place and instead of inciting more fear we should advise our leaders, and writers, both here and abroad to move cautiously and not let tragedies like 9/11 and others which may yet come stampede us into massive retaliatory actions.
If the author reads this I would encourage him to contact me because there are better ways to help this world than what he has tried to do.
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Summary: Starts promising then fades....
Review: I have to agree with another reviewer that this book probably could have been summed up in a 50 page pamphlet. It starts off interesting then lulls on and on into too much uninteresting stuff. The fact that the book says the end of the world is coming in 2006 is scary and the actions of the G. W. Bush administration with all its warmongering definitely makes it a possibility. But this interesting tidbit is swamped with too much filler. Interesting information given but it is hard to get through.
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Summary: The New Age Ouija Board
Review: Unfortunately, and despite the author's acknowledged heroic and tireless efforts on behalf of world peace, the 'Bible Code II: The Countdown' may in fact hasten the results the author seeks to prevent if those in power actually use the book as some sort of new age ouija board. For instance, why nothing on the start of WWIV on the 20th of March 2003, an event that will surely hasten The End of Days. Or even the Columbia Shuttle tragedy on the 1st of February 2003, an ominous harbinger for some?
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Summary: Garbage
Review: There are a lot of gullible people out there. Neither the Bible Code nor Drosnin predicted 9/11. After the fact, Drosnin typed various words into a computer, which re-ordered the Torah until it came up with something. Anybody can do that about any subject.
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Summary: Possibly a Hoax
Review: I read the first "Bible Code" book as well as this one. I couldn't resist buying it because I am fascinated by the possibility of "hidden" code within the bible that could only have been extracted with the invention of the computer. However, one must take into account that the author appears to be using text based on the number of characters in a line of hebrew, with the number of characters on each line being arbitrary. If this is correct, it seems like you could almost get anything you want out of a large book like the bible. The author uses letters diagonally, vertically, etc., just like you would solve a crossword puzzle. It makes for interesting reading, and the author does make relatively specific predictions based on the text. If ALL of the predictions come true, then we must conclude that the code is real and was engineered by God thousands of years ago. One big problem I have with the book is that the author claims to NOT be religious and seems to side more with the theory that it was written by aliens from outer space, which is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard. All in all it's interesting reading and I feel it was worth the price.
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