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Summary: Intellectually challenging, emotionally starved.
Review: Michael Drosnin dazzles with his book 'The Bible Code'. Unfortunately, as with all sleight of hand, the readership leaves with the genuine belief that they have been cheated. Intellectually impressive, but no food for the Soul. Another astounding book that actually DOES deliver the biblical goods is the wonderful "The Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth and the Missing Years" by Richard G. Patton. Patton depicts the figure of Jesus in a manner that is thoroughly convincing at the emotional level, yet intellect - based on traditional teaching - would suggest this revelatory version, not to be true. Unlike Drosnin, Patton doesn't even attempt to persuade us with information we already believe to be true, he merely relies on the emotional force of his , very believable and very human, Jesus; to persuade us - despite our intellectual bias. Drosnin relies on beguiling our intellect by quoting emminent scientists with whom we do not have the tools to argue. I felt bullied into being impressed - not convinced by a long chalk. This book had the potential to be great and the initial presentation does persuade us of that. The braver, and ultimately more satisfying, book has to be "The Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth and the Missing Years." by Richard G. Patton. Having said that, if you enjoy Agatha Christie mystery novels (and there are millions that do) , this will stretch the old grey matter.
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Summary: For a better treatment, read "Cracking the Bible Code"
Review: I give this book a 4 because for all its faults it did accomplish something important - introducing the public to the Bible Codes. The phenomenon is real and of great import. However, Drosnin goes overboard and starts using ELS to try to predict the future - something that cannot be done using the codes. For example, if you find "drosnin," "train," and a date, does that mean he must take that train on that date? Or should he avoid it? Or is there some other meaning altogether? In addition, Drosnin makes the same mistake as many amateur "debunkers" who find "codes" in other texts - he does not use the same rigorous methodology or standards employed by researchers such as Witztum or Diaconis. Any text can yield ELSs in the simple sense, but what is unique about the Torah Codes is the statistical strangeness as described in Satinover's book, and the fact that the ELS features were not uncovered AFTER THE FACT, but actually PREDICTED BEFOREHAND. For example, one researcher predicted the AHRN cluster in Leviticus just because it seemed suspicious that Aaron was not mentioned in a passage where he was of prime importance, except in the context of "sons of Aaron." Another is the prediction that they would find the names of all the fruit trees indigenous to Israel in the passage about the Garden of Eden, where no names of trees are given. This is a different kind of ELS phenomenon altogether. Finding ELSs about assassinations in texts after the fact, picking and choosing results, etc. are not fair game in serious (Torah) ELS research. Efforts at confirmation or debunking should continue, but shoddy stuff like the "Moby Dick" codes should not undermine the real work. Drosnin's book, unfortunately, is of this kind. However, as I said, he has served a purpose (other than his own, whatever that may be) in bringing this to the forefront of public knowledge, all the more for his belief in the codes (though misguided).
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Summary: The challenge by M. Drosnin met
Review: M. Drosnin has challenged anybody to find a prediction of Prime Minister Rabin's assassination in Moby Dick. I assume that by Moby Dick he meant any book other than the Bible. I chose randomly a book titled (in Hebrew) Ziunim Ze Lo Hakol (which means Screwing Is Not Everything) by an Israeli novelist Dahn Ben-Amotz, published in Tel-Aviv in 1979 by Metziut Publishers. Without any computer program, and without rearranging the text, I very easily discovered in that book, on page 33, the following ELS, forming a chain of words with small skips, which read: Amir Will Kill Prime Minister Hero Rabin, all of this contained within just two paragarphs of about 600 characters. Hence, the challenge by M. Drosnin has been met. I am interested in a reply from M. Drosnin.
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Summary: Micheal Drosnin's Bible Code, fact or fiction?
Review: I am a born again Christian of 22 years and after reading the Bible Code by M. Drosnin I was skeptical in the first few chapters after seeing how the code was laid out. I was a little more intrigued after reading the next few chapters and cross referencing the text and evidence of the bible code with my King James bible. I want you to know that this book is definitely believable to me because of the places where they found code of the end times, verses the real text of the description in God's word. I have been studying God's word for over twenty years and it has made more sense as the reality of events fore told in prophecy have come to light and been realized. The Bible is the word of God! God is omnipresent and omnipotent and could have incorporated a second or third demension of interpretation in his word. He does know the past, present and future of ALL people, and I have witnessed his marvelous miricales at work in many peoples lives besides my own. I don't want to fail to mention that I myself am aware of the described type of associations that people have made about the Bible Code to the art/practice of divination and numerology, however we are talking about God's word here. If there are any clouds cast on this text it would be by satan the great counterfeiter who loves to cast doubts on all scriptural truths and twist them into his own. My name is Mark Aldrich and I am convinced that as the end times approach and the spirit of evil grows greater in this world, God's spirit grows greater also, if you read the bible, we win in the end. This is truly an information society and God allows his children the information we need to stay on top of the evil conspiracies that are going on in higher places of government and the world. My email is gathered through my wife's email address at Michigan State University.
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Summary: original hebrew text used in crytographying
Review: several reviewers have alluded to this book either proving or not proving the existance of God.I have read several books concerning the bible code and have found them to be in agreement with one another for the most part.I am not a sophisticated scholar nor am I knowledgable concerning cryptology but I am knowledgable concerning the scriptures.For anyone with intellect to deny the existance of God seems arrogant and empty.Their intelligence is unable to prove God doesn't exist while creation itself proves His existance.The computor could very well be the key to opening the book of Danial as was foretold in the book of Danial. The bible code appears authentic and awesome to me and as I learn more about God in life it is very much like Him to do something like this.My advice to the critics is to stand in the mirror and try to visualize the beginning of mankind.Looking of course at the perfect way in which the body works and then try to rationalize that perfection as being an accident created from an unintelligent source such as evolutionists would have us to believe. And by the by where did that speck of dust, if you will, come from.No the bible code is real. Drosnin has not done a complete study and report on this miracle but he has done a splendid job of whetting the appetite for more information concerning this code.Please don't reject the possibility of its existance.Don't just read the book. Get the decyphering code and try it out for yourself.I have and it works just as reported.
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Summary: good book, but not good/detailed enough (good marketing too)
Review: This book is well-written, organized, and very easy to understand. Aside from its good marketing. This is a good book for people (especially for those who don't believe in the Bible) who are just begin to explore this subject. The author focused on more things interests himself and the common people but didn't mention much about the bibilical things which the Bible believers might want to know about. It leaves me unfilled because there wasn't enough details but led to further interest in this subject. This books is a good start, but you'll need to buy another book on this subject for further understanding and more details.
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Summary: I'm reading it. Surprising. Chicken skinning. But...
Review: I have recommended it to other people and it always causes the same effect. After the great shock it gaves the reader the remaining sensation is that it is a bit difficult to test it and at the end you stay with the thought that it's a matter of faith ( personally each one would decide if it's true or not).
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Summary: Weak book about a fascinating subject...
Review: Drosnin's book took a fascinating subject and turned it into a load of mainstream-pap of the sort you'd expect to see in the supermarket tabloids. I found myself quickly wanting more and sorely missed the depth the subject demanded. I found it to be self-serving above all and relatively useless as a research tool. This book is fit only as an introduction to the Torah codes and little else.
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Summary: Codes are True---Drosnin is not!
Review: I happen to believe in the codes and hope that they will eventually prove the documentary hypothesis theory to be full of holes because of statistically verifiable codes running between each book in the Torah and the Tanakh. However I believe Drosnin has given serious code research a black eye because of his attempt at fortunetelling with the very book that condemns it, and his outright distortions and untruths that are milking money out of a gullible public wanting someone to tickle their ears for them where it concerns the apocalyptic future that is fast encroaching on us. A few examples of his distortions: Drosnin's Rabin "code" on page 28 where he claims it says "Assassin will assassinate" actually says "slayer who slays" at a skip of +1 in the surface text. If you tead the text of Deut 4:42 you will see that it is talking about an unintentional killing. All Drosnin did was distort the meaning of the words in the surface text and claim they are a valid code. Somebody should tell him that the definition of a code is that the letters make up "new" words. There are multiple examples of this in his book. Several times Drosnin used a wide ranging date in his predictions (5760-6 on pg 124) like as if this pseudo-omnicient new-age guru who supposedly encoded these words was confused as to when this date would really occur. However, if you think about it this ambiquity will enable Drosnin to sell his book up until the very last possible moment--very good planning I would say. On page 126 he said that "World War--the ONLY time it is encoded in the ENTIRE bible--appears in the same place [as the years], and crosses one of the sacred verses." (emphasis mine). However, I found his spelling for "World War" after searching only 2 other books beyond the Torah in the book of Jeremiah. Serious code researchers are aware of the fact that many of Drosnin's matrixes have words with skips into the 30,000's and therefore if he were to TRUTHFULLY produce an accurate matrix in his book it would span several pages. However, unknowlegable folks on the codes are not aware of this fact, nor does he bother to explain this in his "notes on illustrations" in the back of the book. His Clinton & President code, with Clinton at a skip of 33,720 is one example, and his Watergate code is another with a skip of 30,304. I gave Drosnin a rating of 2 only because his book is a good study in what a code is NOT! I would highly recommend Jeffrey Satinover's new book "Cracking the Bible Code" for anyone interested in the FACTS about code research.
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Summary: Profound and stunning, an eye opener for all.
Review: As an individual that subscribed to an agnostic view of life, I was absolutely shaken to the core after reading Michael Drosnins' The Bible Code.
Finally, science and religeon can co-exist and work together to help enlighten mankind.
The mathmatic evidence documented by Drosnin is simply astoundingly accurate.
One can only draw a single conclusion upon reading The Bible Code; there really is a hidden code in the Old Testament that predicts with accuracy, future events. I truely believe that this is the most significant book to be written since the Bible itself.
Everyone should read it !
For those that can't accept blind faith and need proof or a theory that makes common sense , this is it.
Scientifically and mathmatically proven, Drosnin does a masterful job at presenting only the facts while staying away from philosophic ideas and conclusions.
This book has forever changed my life, for the better I might add.
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