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Summary: Great book. A must read for everyone
Review: A great book, written by Drosnin. It explains
the travels of a man who knows of Christ, yet
is not a believer. He starts to believe some
after finding out what the code devulges.
Could it make you a believer as well?
Read it and see. By the way, a program is
believed to be out, but the cost is around
$200-$300. Just think of what could be in the
New Testament???
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Summary: Geoff Rommuntrel
Review: The Bible Code leaves many questions that I have unanswered. In Hebrew letters and numbers are interchangeable and every date can be interpreted in three different ways (dates). Michael Drosnin can you supply a copy of these computer programs so that others may also run tests etc ???
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Summary: Bunk!
Review: OK. Let's examine the facts:
[A] The original mathematician who co-authored the paper which "inspired" the book has distanced himself from the book because of Drosnin's loose mixing of statistically significant finds with those not significant (look up the related story at CNN.COM)
[B] Most English speakers don't understand the flexibility with which Hebrew words can be interpreted. Written Hebrew lacks the vowel sounds which make for a significant factor in "finding" encoded words. You could probably find instructions for changing a flat tire if you looked hard enough.
[C] According to at least one Hebrew speaking person I know of who read the book, Drosnin took liberties with the sounds of the words. If a word sounded close enough to the real thing, it was good enough for a "prophesy". You increase your chance of finding, for example, "assassin" if you allow "asasin", "azazin", "assashin", etc. to count. Unless you speak Hebrew, examples in the book show only correct English spelling, not the "near matches" of the Hebrew version.
[D] The claims that "prophesies" cannot be found in other works is bogus. Maybe specific phrases were not found in the Hebrew translation of "War and Peace", but I myself using a simple Pascal program have found several examples as "astonishing" as anything Drosnin presents in his work in an English segment of War & Peace (without the benefit of the Hebrew language's flexibility). (examples: The words "innews" "goat" and "clone" within four lines of each other; "Sadat", "asasins" and "dead" in the same general area -- Sadat was killed by multiple assassins. Spooky, huh? Again I only searched the first few thousand letters of W&P, not the whole book). Also, an australian combinatorics expert has found many examples of "predications" of assassinations in Melville's "Moby Dick" (see his page at http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html). This is in answer to Drosnin's direct challenge for someone to find any prediction of an assassination in Moby Dick, given in a Newsweek interview (June 9, 1997).
[E] In interviews I've seen with Drosnin he says that the code can't be used to predict the future, but at other times he claims to have predicted the future and warned the Prime Minister of Israel, etc. He's not consistant. (Look up the cyberchat with Drosnin, again at CNN.com).
[F] The original paper on the Bible code only used the first five books of the Bible which are traditionally agreed upon to be written by the same author. Drosnin sites many examples throughout the Bible. The entire Bible was written over a span of centuries by many authors. Did they all agree on a code? Also, if the author of, for example, the books of Kings & Chronicles were sophisticated enough to put in a code which could only be decyphered by computer, why did they recount the measurements of a "molten sea" in two different places which, if you do the math, imply that pi = 3 (I Kings vii, 23 and 2 Chronicles iv,2).
[G] If this Bible Code is true, then it's the greatest discovery ever in the history of man, not just the subject of a book that will be discussed for a while then eventually retired to the "bargain table" at the warehouse bookstores. How many books have been written about the discovery of the atom? (Answer: innumerable) How many books have been written about the Bible Code? (Answer: 1)
Conclusion, Michael Drosnin has given us something interesting to talk about, but it must be analyzed rationally. When this controversy came up I remembered reading Drosnin's book about Howard Hughs and that I had enjoyed it. I hope the fallout from this "quack" work does not stiffle a bonafied talent.
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Summary: Official Torah Codes Page
Review: Drosnin's predictions are logically flawed, but Dr. Ripsmathematics is right on the money.
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Summary: A popular, anecdotal, sensational piece of journalism.
Review: Here are my observations and reactions after reading Drosnin's book. (1) Using the ELS Bible code technique described in his book, Drosnin said that he was able to predict the outcomes of elections in Israel and in the USA. Furthermore, according to Drosnin, ancient Jewish sages speculated that all knowledge is encoded in the Torah. Does it not follow, therefore, that a gamblin' man should be able to make bets on such predictions and reap big rewards? Do you suppose that the outcomes of sports contests are encoded in the Torah? Hmmm, I wonder. (2) My biggest problem with Drosnin's book, even after reading it twice, is that I wasn't provided with enough information to discern the statistical significance of most of his findings. For instance, there are several tabulations of unencoded strings of plain text on the horizontal, e.g., "ASSASSIN THAT WILL ASSASSINATE," crossing vertically encoded ELS text, e.g., "YITZHAK RABIN." Shouldn't all of the conceptually related search terms be hidden ELS codes, not plain text, to be statistically significant? (3) In my opinion, the most significant findings in Drosnin's book can be found in the Appendix which contains a reprint of the 1994 Statistical Science paper by Witztum, Rips, and Rosenberg. After only one reading of "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis," I found myself in agreement with the authors' conclusions: (a) that Torah codes exist and (b) that they are not mere coincidence. I can only hope that Drosnin's popular work stimulates more scientific research on the codes, and less reporting of the anecdotal and the happenstance. (4) I eagerly await books by Witztum, Rips, Rosenberg, Gans, and others like them. It seems to me that their cautious, scientific approach will enable their discoveries to be better received by skeptical, but reasonable, people than Drosnin's journalistic approach. (5) I thank God for His chosen people to whom the plain text of the Torah was entrusted and by whom the hidden code of the Torah was discovered. (6) Is there more to this quote from John 5:46 than meets the eye? Jesus said, "If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me." Now there's a challenge for the Torah codes experts
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Summary: FASCINATING
Review: I was astounded by this book, and by the skeptical (and somewhat insulting) reviews by some readers, who refuse to believe in the code,even though attempts to find similar codes in several other works (including 'War and Peace') have been totally unsuccessful. Throughout the Old Testament,God repeatedly warns the Hebrews and other peoples of impending disasters; that most of these warnings came true is a historically proven fact. Now He has unveiled the hidden books of Daniel by technology only available to us in a society that is as perverse as any in the Old Testament. And, as in those times, He is being ridiculed (as by some critics of this book). My only criticism of this book is that it makes little or no mention of Yeshua (Jesus) or the Messiah. Is this (by agreement?) because of the strong orthodox Hebrew religious beliefs of some of the contributors to this book? Another book on the Bible Code referring specifically to Jesus (Yeshua) has been written (I think that it is referred to in 'Signatures of God'; an excellent book on the same subject by Jeffries), but it is not listed in your catalogue.
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Summary: Could this be the "deception?"
Review: I read the book and the evidence becomes almost overwhelming that the Bible was written under the influence of a greater power. On the surface you want to say it is God since it originates out of the Bible, and yes I am a Christian and believe in God. However, there are some parts of the book and claims about the "Code" which I find disquieting and the thought came to mind that could this be the work of God, or may it be the work of Satan and part of the deception warned of in the Bible. Time will only tell how the code is utilized. I would urge all to keep an open mind
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Summary: War and Peace? Why not the Koran or Hindian scripts?
Review: There are claims of several codes in the Bible, equally distant sequences of letters, the speed of light, similarities between Hebrew and English and so many others. I believe a supreme entity exists and gave us a message but there are some others that claim the Bible has been modified over the centuries so how to trust the outcome?
What I think would definitely set the matter out of discussion would be to find in the Biblical texts not doubtful predictions or uncertain names encoded, but something like the beginning of the sequence of digits of mathematical trascendental constants like "pi" or "e", those little numbers are definitely related to advanced civilizations, at least as advanced as we are, and are not related to any unit of meausurement, how could they be encoded there thousands of years ago? When something like that is precisely found in the Bible or any other ancient text then people could claim things like "the seal has been broken", regardless of any seal being really broken or not, but at least the claim would make much more sense in that case. Raul Saavedra, Computer Science, Tulane University
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Summary: Time will tell
Review: I want to first say that I am a believer in Christ, and I fancy myself an intelligent individual with a good background in science. That said, I wish to say that I found the book tantalizing, but I was left empty after finishing it (in one night). To me, this book doesn't prove the existence of God, because I already believed. In addition, I think it can't be held up as proof to anyone (I mean the fact that the code exists) because those who don't want to believe won't believe. I struggled through the article by Dr. Rips, and found the experiment to, in my mind, be thourough. I am a biologist, not a mathematician, so I have to rely on the peer reviewers and the code breaker at the pentagon, as well as Dr. Rips. That said, I want to harang the ones who denounced the book as pure garbage. If it made it through three peer reviews, and other scholarly criticism by giants in that field, how can people with very little background in mathematics and statistics shoot down the experiment? You can dislike the book on the merits of the writing (of which could have been more of, my criticism), or the editing, or the use of grammar, but if you can't claim a PhD in Dr. Rips' field, you can't touch the science, if everything is as it appears. Just give it time. If the theory is false, it will be eliminated by scholars with years of expertise in advanced math. For me, God's Word is already solid. After 3000 years we still have Jews and Christians, despite the attempts by countless people and powers to destroy us. That's proof enough for me. One last parting shot (I know I am quite wordy, please forgive me). Those of you who don't believe in the Almighty (again assuming the Code holds up to the undoubtedly fierce criticism in scholarly circles) now have one LESS reason to doubt his presence. Some food for thought. Olusegun Coker
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Summary: Keep An Open Mind
Review: Do not expect much more from the style: This research comes to us written from a former journalist who has taken a matter-of-fact approach to a topic he himself is inclined to doubt, being an agnostic. As for the content of this publication, one cannot deny the ongoing forecasts that are more current than our daily newspapers. In fact, much more information is being made available by Christian authors such as: Grant Jeffries' "Signature of God". Anyone who does not believe the first verse in the Bible ("In the beginning God...") will have trouble believing in supernatural things. "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." -Prov 25:2 and . . .
"O the depth of the wisdom and knowledge of God? how unsearchable are his judgments, and His ways past finding out." -Rom 11:33
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