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The Bible Code
The Bible Code
Author: Michael Drosnin
For three thousand years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer -- and it may reveal our future. — The code was broken by an Israeli mathematician, who presented the proof in a major science journal, and it has been confirmed by famous mathematicians around the world. — This book is the first full account of ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780684810799
ISBN-10: 0684810794
Publication Date: 5/29/1997
Pages: 272
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  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 42 ratings
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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It was a very clinical read, which is to be expected when presenting a body of facts and evidence. Presented from a non-Christian writer's point of view. It was okay, but not riveting.
bup avatar reviewed The Bible Code on + 166 more book reviews
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A lot of the dazzle of this book is gone once you realize that, if you can read Hebrew, the horizontal text is just plain text. So he's just playing find-a-word vertically (without vowels, so, for instance, DALLAS would be DLS), and then looks for words 'crossing' it - of course words cross it! It's plain text!


Looking at what I've written so far, breaking at every 32nd letter:

Alotofthedazzleofthisbookisgoneo
nceyourealizethatifyoucanreadHeb
rewthehorizontaltextisjustplaint
extSohesjustplayingfindawordvert
icallywithoutvowelssoforinstance
DALLASwouldbeDLSandthenlooksforw
Ordscrossingitofcoursewordscross
itItsplaintextLookingatwhatIvewr
ittensofar


Look! 'Die' crosses 'Dallas'! That 'proves' my text magically knew about the Kennedy assasination!

He does the same thing - he's very impressed that he found "Kennedy" crossing "president." What he found was "KND" crossing the Hebrew word for "chieftain" which he loosely translated as "president." And again, of course "chieftain" is in the text - it's plain text.

Add in to that that he rearranges these things constantly (look at every 20th letter. Nothing? Look at every 21st letter. Nothing? Look at every 22nd letter. etc.) Then he goes even farther than that, accepting diagonal words (and words at various slopes).

It's garbage, garbage, garbage, and has never predicted anything before the fact (which is, in fairness, included in the definition of predict).
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I thought it was a bunch of bull personally.
amylouise avatar reviewed The Bible Code on + 6 more book reviews
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Interesting book. The author's claims are greatly compromised due to the fact that key experts he quotes in the book deny what he says. I might look at it out of curiosity, but it seems to have absolutely no legitimacy.
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From the back cover: On September 1, 1994, I flew to Israel and met in Jerusalem with a close friend of Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin, the poet Chaim Guri. I gave him a letter which he immediately gave to the Prime Minister.

"An Israeli mathematician has discovered a hidden code in the Bible that appears to reveal the details of events that took place thousands of years after the Bible was written," my letter to Rabin stated.

"The reason I'm telling you about this is that the only time your full name -- Yitzhak Rabin -- is encoded in the Bible, the words that 'assassin that will assassinate' cross your name."

On November 4, 1995, came the awful confirmation a shot in the back from a man who believed he was on a mission from God, the murder that was encoded in the Bible three thousand years ago.
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Interesting!
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One of the first code books I ever read. Very informative, very exciting to see the hand of God in his word. loved it.


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