Rating: 
Summary: nice story told with the wrong attitude and banal conclusion
Review: I think that the lack of general understanding of Torah, judaism and the world itself does not allowed the author to take the right approach to this amaizing findings.
The descriptive part of the book, when he explaines the Rips' experiments and the history of codes is very good. It's also very interesting to hear the opinions of professional people. Unfortunately author's own opinion and thoughts are not that valuable. He often repeats facts with "new" detailes and tries to philisophize on the basis of "words matching".
I believe all his "experiments" and future predictions are silly.
It's clear even to the author that everything (literally!) is coded. Because of that all his "codes" may really means that "M.Drosnin will try to make a book of this". And I am afraid that its not that important for the mankind. His apocaliptic ideas are really a millenium feaver symptoms.
So try to read the book critically. But take valuable facts from it.
Rating: 
Summary: Thoughtful caution advised for sceptics.
Review: Unlike several reviewers I have read this book, several times. It appears this is the first secular proof of the existence of GOD in about 2000 years. If you cross-tab (God, No god, I believe and I don't believe) you see there is a 25% purely mathematical probability of good things. Tens of thousands of people go to casinos and bet their whole paychecks on a single spin of the wheel, with far poorer odds... and with a lot less to win. To the confirmed sceptic I would say 25% odds are pretty darn good, you might benifit by careful study.
To the religous minded, I would say careful study is advised and be prepared to find proofs.
For myself I believe! I find confirmation of ancient traditions about the TORA and I see the Finger of GOD. I am humbled by this and reminded of what my "job" is during my life on Earth. As a child I was tended by a kindly grandfather of a neighbor, Ben Wasserman, with his strange accent, black clothes and curley locks who favored this inquisitive child of Christians. Ben said: "The TORA is the world entire." Now I understand, "Thank you Ben. Thank you Michael," my faith does not depend on your book, yet it is made richer because of it!
Rating: 
Summary: Deja Vu - Proceed with Caution and Skepticism
Review: Before you get overly excited about the prospects and significance of a "Bible Code," be aware that claims of discovering hidden codes within sacred wirtings are not new. Long before Drosnin, such claims have been made for the Hebrew scriptures, the Greek text of the New Testament, the Arabic text of the Qur'an and even the Book of Mormon. Similarly, centuries back and to the present, folks have puzzled over the identity of the antichrist and the significance of his number, 666. His numerical equivalent has been found from Nero to Hitler with hundreds of others in between.
Drosnin issued this challenge in the June 9, 1997, issue of Newsweek: "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." Well, it's time to believe the critics. Brenden McKay of Australia National University has found the assassinations of Indria Gandhi and Lebanese president Rene Moawad in Moby Dick. Additionally, he has found the assassinations of Leon Troksky, Martin Luther King and Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. Robert Kennedy's assassin's name, Sirhan Sirhan also appears at least three time, once next to the initials RFK! You can view these and other "mathematical miracles" on http://cs.anu.edu.au/~ebdm/dilugim/moby.html. They are laid out in the same type of arrays that Drosnin has in his book.
Perhaps a better approach for readers would be to concern themselves more with the plain meaning of the readable text of both the Old and New Testament Scriptures before getting overly excited about the supposedly hidden messages
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Summary: Established Truth!
Review: The book is an easy read despite its documentary nature! There is a great review for the source of this book found at www.jvim.com in the August Intelligence Briefing
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Summary: The facts of the book were amazing, the opinions--blah
Review: After all of the Bible Code-related events that the author was a witness to, I find it hard to believe that he still has a hard time believing in God. The idea that a "good person" encoded these things thousands of years ago is hogwash! It had to be God! Anyway, it is very interesting to see all the events that were foretold, regardless of the author's unbelief. I would like to see a book with "just the facts, ma'am."
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Summary: THE NAME JESUS IS MISSING IN THE BOOK. WHY?
Review: I WAS SURPRISED, SCARED, DELIGHTED, ELATED, FASCINATED,INTRIGUED, DISORIENTED DISSAPOINTED AND SHOCKED WHEN I DISCOVERED THEBOOK PAID MORE ATTENTION TO THE NAME RICHARD NIXON THAN TO JESUS OF NAZARETH. I BELIEVE MR. DROSNIN AND MR. RIPPS SHOULD DARE TO ASK THEIR COMPUTER PROGRAM ABOUT THE MAN WHO MANY OF US BELIEVE IS THE MESSIAH, GOD HIMSELF. I CHALLANGE THEM TO FIND OUT. THE ANSWER WILL BRING THE JEWISH PEOPLE OUT OF DARKNESS AND AVOID THEM MORE PAIN. I THINK THE CODE WILL SAVE, REVEAL THE TRUTH AND THE 144.000 ISRAELIS TO BE MARKED,SAVED OR CONVERTED, WILL HAVE THEIR CHANCE.
Rating: 
Summary: Horrible, Horrible Book.
Review: Not only is the book badly written and presented, but it's basic premise is wrong. Codes can be found anywhere because humans often classify coincidences as MEANINGFUL
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Summary: The Code Does Exist
Review: The code exists. It has been confirmed by too
many sources of the highest integrity as follows:
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
- Hebrew University
- Jerusalem College of Technology
- Harvard University Mathematics Department
- Journal of Statistical Science
- Bible Review Magazine
- and many more...
The focus now should be the confirmation of the
interpretations of the writings of the Old
Testament Profits. I.E. we are confident that in
Daniel 9:25 that the 69 weeks (483, 360 day years
(69 * 7 * the length of the Biblical or Jubilee
year)) applies to Christ's first coming. However,
do the 7 weeks in Daniel 9:25 apply to current
times as Isaac Newton suspected. 1948
(Reesablishment of the State of Israel plus 49
years (7 weeks of years). There are many other
indications that these are the end times: The
birth of the red heifer, Archbishop Ussher
16-17th Century (Dated the geneologies of Christ
in Mathew, Luke, and Genesis with the Bible and
documents which were subsequently destroyed during
the Irish Wars to arrive at the date of creation
of 4004 B.C. plus 6000 years equals 1997 for the
end times), and the three 2000 year time spans
(Adam to Abraham, Abraham to Christ, Christ to
now).
Rating: 
Summary: Thought provoking and at times discomforting...
Review: Despite the fact that I am a Christian who believes that the world will be brought to an end by God,quite possibly in some human-initiated Armeggedon-like conflict, my initial reaction to this book was to categorize it as a sensationalistic coincidence of science and random occurences. (With enough monkeys and typewriters, the complete works of Shakespeare will ultimately be produced.) But I am also an engineer with a good understanding of statistics and the scientific method. There is more here than coincidence, and the more I read, the more I became convinced that a pattern has been discovered that defies a random-based explanation. If I could read Hebrew, I would be more comfortable in endorsing the author's conclusion more completely, but that with which I am familiar (the scientific and computer methodology and the statistical foundation) produced conclusions that were unsettling by the time I finished the last chapter
Rating:
Summary: Don't bother
Review: What started out as a perfectly logical and
comprehensible issue has turned into a sensational over-hyped pile of drivel.
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