The BIBLE CODE

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Summary: More Questions -- Where is more info available?
Review: This book was very interesting in its theory of a biblicalcode. However, the publisher should have left the codes for theappendix and edited the book for its repeats of thoughts and predictions. Although I would like to believe the bible code exists, it would help to have more information about predictions and past events that have happened. The author was very vague about what the next steps should be to determine what we can do to ensure that negative predictions do not come true or how to change the future for the benefit of mankind.

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Summary: A Point to Ponder ( 9 for content; 7 for technique)
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I find it interesting to note that, apparently, many of those who have sent reviews have either
(1) not read this book, or
(2) not read it carefully, or
(3) not considered it objectively.

I do admit that I believe in God, quite strongly. However, I do not readily ascribe to many prophetic teachings which have been publicized recently, simply because I feel that it is dangerous to over-interpret prophetic scripture (or for that matter, to under-interpret it).

So, I feel that I did read with an open mind, and also feel that this is an objective review.

As I read this book, I noticed that the author did repeat himself on several occasions, among which was the fact that he remains an atheist, but that now, at least, he does believe that "someone else" did encode the Bible. He (and I, for that matter,) did not want to believe in it when he started his investigation. He sent the information to several individuals, all of whom bear scientific credentials, and they ran separate tests with their own programs, with the same results (some with even more specific results).

Another point that previous reviewers seem to focus on is that it is possible, in a work that size, to find things encoded. This is, indeed, a correct assumption. However, the same tests were run on at least one other text of comparable size. Those tests showed that random words could be formed, but that no related words were found in close proximity. The author relates case after case in which related words occur in proximity, repeatedly. The math really does seem to make sense.

I read the book straight through twice. I plan to check some references. I plan also to code my own analysis. I consider the author's allegations to be very serious, and plan to treat them seriously.

I am not afraid to admit that the code may exist.

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Summary: Instilled the fear of God in me for the 1st time
Review: the 10 rating i gave above is not so much for the writing and presentation of the book, but for the effect it had on me and the facts contained within. Read just the first 50 pages and you'll be forced to ask yourself what you believe and how sure you are that everything you know about God is what he meant for us to know. It's a chilling proposition, that all of lives and everything around us is known to some superior being and it's been encoded in this book that's been around since the beginning. That for me was what made it so real. I really felt that God existed that very moment and I was physically shaking in fear. All the negative reviews on the page here bring up questions like, "So where's the Ark of the Covenant?", that's a ridiculous question and one that proves stupidity if you've read the book, stop asking questions and trying to dispute the evidence if you haven't read the book and don't understand the limitations of the code at this point in time. Read this and piss your pants...

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Summary: Mind Joggling!
Review: I found the subject matter to be out of this world, but the author's repeticious manner of presentation somewhat boring. I am an engineer who is familiar with some of the mathematical techniques used to test the theory in Professor Rips' paper. If the test results are as represented in the paper, the Bible code is a reality and simply amazing! What is equally amazing is the lack of public investigations by world religious leaders to attempt to further verify the theory. And to further confound me is that I've seen no headlines in the Super Market tabloids about the code. Even the 50 year old UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico seems to enjoy higher billing than this story. Are people afraid to believe that God or some other form of higher intelligence had the capability to encode the world's events up to 3000 years before they happened? I assume that this attitude is spawned by the same attitude that refuses to believe that we are not alone in the universe. I'd certainly like to see more on this subject and will probably obtain a copy of the computer program to do my own investigation. Boring presentation or not, the book is worth reading

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Summary: trash
Review: It's unfortunate that we live in a society as ethnocentric as this. Consider that a large percentage of the world's inhabitants don't even subscribe to the Judeo-Christian belief system. The Bible/Torah means nothing to them. Why place such emphasis on this book then? I'm laughing at you all

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Summary: A bad book for both science and religion
Review: The author of the book is a honest writer who serves the wrong cause. The whole book is a souped-up version of the article of Prof. Rips (originally in "Statistical Science" and reprinted in the appendix). The whole work is based on the "scientific authority" given by such article. I would note some points in sparse order: i)I have read quite a few absurd articles published in journals much more prestigious than "Statistical Science". Furthermore, Probability and Statistics can be really tricky even for professionals! ii)Very often, scientists who don't agree with a marginal thesis don't spend time criticizing it. They just ignore it. This is the most effective way for them to be productive, and for the theory not to do much damage. So, no wonder that no confutations have appeared; iii)the ability to see "hidden patterns" is recurrent... Read the essays by Martin Gardner on the subject to find how such "visions" are deceiving; iv)I have some doubts about the transliteration from english to hebrew, because the former is non-phonetic and has vowels. It would be interesting to try the same game of Prof. Rips with other literary works. Being italian, I am planning to have my life forecasted in great detail by reading the "Divine Comedy". I am confident I'll succeed... Final advice: don't buy this book, and with the same money buy a good edition of the Bible, and read it in the usual, boring way. And, surrise! You'll learn a lot about yourself and the world.

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Summary: This book deserves a big S-U-C-K!
Review: This book is so obviously wrong. There's not much I can do to convince you here, buy the book (If you're stupid enough), read it, THROW IT OUT

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Summary: An unconvincing claim of a code within the bible.
Review: Drosnin has made an astounding claim and if indeed there is a bible code it would have a profound effect on my religious beliefs. The author claims that the code "has been confirmed by world famous mathematicians at Harvard,Yale,and Hebrew University,that the code has been replicated by a senior code-breaker at the department of defense and that it has passed three levels of secular peer review at a leading U.S. math journal." Do all of the individuals above in fact,verify the existance of a bible code?

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Summary: Just as I thought
Review: It is hardly suprising that sooner or later we would find the finger prints of God in the bible. Mr Drosin has done a superb piece of detective work. At the moment I live in Japan, but I think I will give the year 2000 & 2006 a miss. Yours sincerely Dr G.D.McMeeking

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Summary: I loved it and I did my own Codes Searches!
Review: I loved the book and I was able to do my own searches by using a codes program at: www.torahscholar.com/codes.html I even found myself in the Bible