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Encyclopedia > The Bible Code

The Bible Code is a best-selling controversial book by Michael Drosnin, first published in 1997. This is a list of controversial non-fiction books aimed at the general reader which discuss controversial issues, or are (or were at the time of writing) controversial for other reasons. ...


Drosnin describes a "Bible code", in this case messages that allegedly are encoded in the Torah. The purported messages are supposed to be hidden in the Torah by placing their letters at equal intervals in the text. Bible codes, also known as Torah codes, are words, phrases and clusters of words and phrases that some people believe are meaningful and exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible. ... Torah, (תורה) is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or especially law. It primarily refers to the first section of the Tanakh–the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the Five Books of Moses, but can also be used in the general sense to also include both the...


Drosnin's book is based on the technique described in the paper "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" by Eliyahu Rips of the Hebrew University in Israel together with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg. A sequel, The Bible Code II, was published in 2002 and also reached best-seller status. Eliyahu Rips is an Israeli mathematician known for his research in algebra and the controversial Bible codes. ...


For a discussion of bible codes and debates about their validity, see Bible code. Bible codes, also known as Torah codes, are words, phrases and clusters of words and phrases that some people believe are meaningful and exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible. ...


See also

Celestine Prophecy is a book by James Redfield. ...

External links

  • Hidden Messages and The Bible Code
  • "Scientific Refutation of the Bible Codes" by Brendan McKay and others
  • Dror Bar-Natan's Bible Code page

Related literature

  • Michael Drosnin. The Bible Code. Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0684810794.
  • Jeffrey Satinover: "Cracking the Bible Code". Wm Morrow, 1997. ISBN 0688154638. Appeared slightly later, follows a more historical and traditional route.

  Results from FactBites:
 
The Bible Codes (2864 words)
The Bible Code, which was written by an unbeliever and is purely secular in scope, claims that someone (he speculates that it was extraterrestrials) placed a secret code in the Old Testament over three thousand years ago.
So although the Bible code proved in error concerning the invasion of Israel, we are to believe that it is accurate in declaring that we have entered the last days.
Some Christians are buying into the Bible code premise on the basis that it is receiving strong support from both the scientific and mathematical community, as well as from Christian scholarship.
The Bible (or Torah) Code - Skeptic's Dictionary (1327 words)
The Bible Code is the title of a book by Michael Drosnin in which he claims that there is a code embedded in the Bible by God.
He claims in The Bible Code (1997) that decoding the Bible leads to the discovery of prophecies and profound truths of a secular nature, not all of which are related to the Jews.
Drosnin claims that the Bible is the only text in which these encoded phrases are found in a statistically significant pattern, and that the chance of this being a random phenomenon is unlikely.
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