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Summary: Fascinatingly Ignorant
Review: A very interesting work, but he fails to provide any citation for the authenticity of his method. I'm sure I could take James Joyce's Ulysses and run the same algorithm used on the Bible and find similar predictions in a completely unholy book.
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Summary: This book is a total crock. Let me explain why.
Review: This book is a total crock, my reasoning being (1.) I am sick and tired of the author of books like these being non-religious and forced into believeing there is a God and there is a message in the Bible. (2.) In the book, words kept on suddenly popping up after something didn't come true, or wasn't different. (3.) The guy is a reporter supposedly. He is constantly flying out to the Middle East and finding messages in the Bible, so when is he ever reporting? (maybe he works for one of those tabloids...?). This is like the old 'When is Jesse Jackson ever at a church?' question. I gave this book 1 star, only because I can't go lower. Don't waste your money on it.
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Summary: A sensationalizing idiot
Review: Don't even know if he rates as "hokie". Attempts at credibility include mention of contacts with Rabin's associates before his assasination, and Netanyahu's men (flew to Israel to meet with). It's a wonder anyone took him half serious and gave him 5 minutes. Heard that he has since recanted his claim. Anything to this, or was it just Rips who did? And what about "equidistant" "coding" of letters next to each other. Isn't that like just words, and not coded?" And anything can tell anything if you skip enough letters. And the Bible needs no added credibility. Read it as it is! It's amazing, that tells of an amazing God. Anyone please comment on my comments. Thanks.
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Summary: not too bad...a good read
Review: I was given this book by a friend and was quite intrigued after reading it. It was only after, when I sat down and really thought about it, that I began to realize that finding any word or phrase is too great, no matter what text you are reading from.Actually, Dr. Eliyahu Rips, one of the focal points of the book, made a public statement, noting that future predictions of global events is statistically impossible. ... Don't take my word for it, just look at the other criticisms of this book. Read David Haggith's review titled "Absolute Crock". He gives a fair assessment of why the book should not be taken literally. If you are a believer, read a few of the online reports done by some high-ranking mathematicians. It is very interesting...
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Summary: Thought-provoking Masterpiece
Review: I think that The Bible Code was a very interesting book that not only could send a chill up your spine, but also bring a tear to your eye. Knowing that there is a Great God out there that is smarter than we could ever comprehend blows my mind. Knowing that he put a code in the Old Testament to be found only by computers in the late 90's amazes me even more. If you want a great book on prophecy and predictions this is for you. Don't listen to anyone telling you that this is art - this is truth!
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Summary: Give Me Something To Believe In
Review: "I'm a total skeptic," Drosnin states near the end of The Bible Code. But if anything, he seems in need of a healthy dose of skepticism. He's often guilty of forcing the puzzle to make it fit. In fact, Drosnin-an atheist-appears to be formulating his own secular religion. It often has been noted that our beliefs tend to reflect our technology. Where once we believed in angels, we now believe in aliens. Where we once believed in divinely-inspired scriptures, now Drosnin gives us the Bible code, prophecies penned by helpful extraterrestrials, accessible only by computer. Clearly the code is nonintellectual twaddle. Even an amatuer statistician could discover that, and some have, proving that you can find the same sort of "predictions" in any book you care to pick up. If you must read this book I urge you to read some of the criticism of it, too, as it's premise is easily dismissed.
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Summary: an embarrassing piece of crap
Review: I almost bought this book at full price before it deservedly hit the junk-pile -- thank God I didn't. This guy hasn't even done enough homework to give us a decent hoax, either that, or he thinks we're all morons. Brutally bad.
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Summary: Interesting!
Review: Some of the reviews i read about this book seemed very unfair. That is probably because those readers did not like what the author came up with, for personal relegious reasons i guess. I can say that Michael Drosnin wrote this study 3 years ago but if you read what he said about the riots which occur by the end of Y2K in Ramallah, mentioning it will be the beginning of WW3, you WILL be amazed! How accurately that was figured out! I recommend this book to everone who's interested in the Bible or in prophecies, not only because it approves what i have read in our holy books, but because the reality is moving along with it.
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Summary: Not what I was expecting
Review: I'd never been very open to people saying there was a code in the Bible, but I decided to give this book a shot. I like to think I'm an objective person. Sadly, this book fell way short of what I was expecting. Hitler's name shows up on the same page as Holocaust...at least that's what Drosnin says. But for those of us not able to read Hebrew (or Aramaic) this book is pretty much worthless. All of his examples of "proof" are in an alphabet and language that I don't understand. This type of proof is worthless! To convince me there's really something there, I'd have to see it in my own language...or learn Hebrew! Not to mention one can find a code in pretty much everything if one really wants to. I just can't buy this idea that the future is explicitly written. If it was, the concept of free will doesn't really exist. God would have already known exactly how each one of us would turn out. Overall, the book was not only unconvincing, but poorly written. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: the most bogus "math" book ever written
Review: Having read a fair number of arguments about why this book is a hoax, I concur with the critics and don't find it convincing. Sure, it's interesting to think of the idea that a master being, G-d if you will, encoded the Bible with everything that will every happen or everything that could happen. As a Jewish person who has studied Torah and Old Testament in college and in religious school, I concede that there are lots of interesting phenomenon in Hebrew: Gematria for instance, which uses the Hebrew number equivalents to prove points. As much as I like the idea, this book is bogus. It was so bad that it made me think that it was an elaborate hoax to sell books. The author spends a lot of time telling us that he worked for the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as how much time he spent flying back and forth to Israel to warn various political figures that they might be knocked off by a killer any time now. The science is shaky, and the author shifts the sands constantly to prove his point. Once an event happens, he finds it in the code, but for future events, all he can say is that any outcome is only a possibility until it happens. Give me a break! Now I'm motivated to check up on the sites and articles that show exactly what is wrong with his argument. I'm not a mathematician or a biblical scholar, but believe me you won't need to be either to see through this pathetic excuse for unbiased scholarship. Give me a few hundred thousand dollars and a computer and I'll show you that the cartoon Garfield contains everything we need to know about quantum physics!
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