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Summary: THIS IS A GREAT BOOK!
Review: It's unbelievable how even a very critical reader like me will be fascinated by this book. You should read it! It will be an absolute asset to your library!
Auch sehr kritische Leser werden von diesem Buch fasziniert sein!
F. Lehnert, Saarbruecken/Deutschland
http://www.lehnert.com
Rating:
Summary: This is a Great Book!
Review: It's unbelievable how even very critical readers
like me will be fascinated by this book.
You should read it! It will be an absolute asset to your library!
Auch sehr kritische Leser werden von diesem Buch
fasziniert sein!
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Summary: Criticism of this work should be left to mathematicians.
Review: The original scholarly article which unravelled the code hidden in the Torah was submitted to a scientific journal, which agreed to publish it in 1994 only after it had been exhaustively checked by THREE eminent mathematicians. The article was then republished, with a commentary, in the prestigious Journal of Scientific Exploration, which again called for refutations. None were forthcoming. I should advise readers who are not numerate enough to understand the mathematical basis of the code, let alone read Hebrew, to keep their brash and jejune remarks to themselves. They are no more qualified to comment on this work, even in its popularized form, than they are to comment on the work of Gauss, Euler or Ramanujan. Perhaps they should learn a little humility before they begin to acquire some elementary mathematics
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Summary: This Book blew my mind
Review: This book is truly amazing. Some people have challenged the findings because some words are diagonal, some are backwards and some are spaced apart.
I would challenge these skeptics to take the entire encyclopedia
Brittanica and try to duplicate the results in any recognizable pattern.
I agree with a previous reader that the book is potentially lifechanging.
I have a primitive version of the program at home and have personally verified some of the the results. I even found the spelling of my last name in the Torah. IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE
I FOUND MY WIFE'S MAIDEN NAME. Coincidence or Supreme Design? Read it an find out.
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Summary: Proves anyone can find anything anywhere
Review: I purchased this book with high hopes and a desire to believe. This book, however, proves that anybody can find anything they want if they tailor the information properly. For example, he claims Libya will attack Israel since the words "Libya", "artilleryman" and "holocaust" are found in the same area. But some words are horizontal, others are vertical, and still others diagonal. To add to this, some words are spaced three letters apart, others two, and another four letters. I suppose you could find anything if you had the time and the technology. The other thing I found disturbing is that only major political events are encoded. Now, I know nobody would buy the book if it only gave lottery numbers (or maybe more people would buy it), but it would be interesting if he could tell us when the Mets are going to win another world series. Or maybe tell us if O.J. is guilty. If the book does tell the future, tell us everthing, not just a bunch of possible coincidences that fit into the author's version of the future
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Summary: Millenia Fever? Miracle? Brain Candy? Read this book!!
Review: You do not need to be of religious persuasion to find a foothold in this presentation. Mathematics aside, clearly we are not alone. Mr. D and company have posted some exciting news . . . something fresh to ponder . . . I must admit that the book ran a little monotonous in a few spots but the overall message gets through by default.
Imagine finally finding out why technology has been accelerating lately and why the computer has become so popular in the last few years . . . just so we could locate and decode the famous "sealed book" of the Bible in time to save our souls from ourselves.
I for one am looking for a sturdy cave and stocking up on the necessary toys and foodstuffs to survive the real fun in 2006. I'll soon know the ridicule that good old Noah must have enjoyed in his day. What fun.
Hope to see you there boys and girls . . . may the code writer have mercy on all of us if we collectively fail to make the attitude adjustments necessary to prolong our stay on this earth
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Summary: Garbage
Review: There is always someone coming along with a book that says they have all the answers to every mystery in the Bible. That's why the have people who call themselves Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate. When will we not become so gulliable to everyone who calls himself an "expert" and turns out Laughable stuff such as this. If you want to hear about secret codes. Go to your local supermarket and pick up the Globe. It Has a new story on the Bible every week and I'm more inclined to believe it
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Summary: Statistics lacking
Review: As someone who reads and understands Hebrew, this modernexposition allied with Gematria (which is finding numericalrelationships between words (e.g. the hebrew word for life, Chai is 18, so 18 is a lucky number)) lacks plausability. Most of the examples utilize foreign words, such as English, transliterated into the hebrew. Because there is no fixed rule for such transliterations, these codes are complete garbage. By adjusting the Hebrew spelling to suit, one could find a code. The Rabin will be murdered code (the word Rezach means murder) is entirely in hebrew, but I didn't see any statistical or other mathematical treatments to demonstrate that this is not the result of chance. (Remember that the Torah is a very long work). I would be interested in reading the work of the mathmaticians who showed the codes using the names (I believe) of famous scholars.
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Summary: Not an original idea, nor an original presentation.
Review: It's amazing how certain "ideas" get discovered over and overagain (and published over and over again). It's even more amazingthat for each new generation (or even just every couple of years) these half-baked ideas get marketed to a new audience. The idea of taking a text (generally the Bible, the Talmud, or the works of Shakespeare) and discovering a hidden meaning, based generally not on the meaning of the text (the words, images, and so forth) but on an incredibly tedious word count, and by finding acrostic type messages (secret messages hidden as the first letter of sentences or paragraphs) is as old as the hills. The University of Maryland library has a few dozen books by Baconists who use these techniques to show that Bacon wrote the wrote Shakespeare's works, for example. These kind of secret messages do exist in some works intentionally (see "Ulysses" or "Vie, La Mode d'emploi, or the Alice books). Basically, however, one can "find" a code in any large work, as long as you a)have a lot of time on your hands, b)know what you want to find. The only thing new about this book is the use of modern computer technology to do more of the tedious bits, but it is still the kind of crackpot scheme wrong headed losers take on. I did not read this book in its entirety ( I spent about an hour at Border's looking at it), but I refuse to purchase on general principle. If you are interested in the meaning of the bible, read the recently published "The Good Book", a thoughtful and emotional description of the issues and their modern relevance by a renowned minister. It'll do a lot more for you than this book.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Those with an in-depth computer and math probabilitiesbackground will find this book intriguing. If anyone knows how to getahold of the computer program metioned in the book, please e-mail me. Also, if you have any suggestions about how to learn Hebrew in the most efficient manner, I'm all ears.
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