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The Bible Code
It would be fair to say, that up to this point the examples I have been citing are interesting conjectures. No matter how good the circumstantial evidence, it is always less than proof. The Bible Code is different, real mathematicians have proved its existence and published the results in the appropriate journals. The first paper published in Statistical Science, Vol. 9, No. 3 by Witzum, Rips and Rosenburg and reprinted in Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Code.
The part of the Bible that has been proved to contain code is the Torah, the Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. There is a tradition, part of the oral tradition passed down since those days, that Moses received the book directly from God, in the form of an unbroken series of 304,805 Hebrew characters, fifty days after the Exodus began.
Turning the Torah back into an unbroken string of characters turns out to be the first step in the decoding process. The Hebrew scribes have been unstinting in their resolve to keep the Torah perfect to the letter.
Strict training for scribes takes place in traditional schools with strict and unchanging instructions about how the work is done. If a single mistake were found in a copy of the Torah, then the whole manuscript would be destroyed immediately.
This warning is passed down to each scribe in training: "Should you perchance omit or add one single letter from the Torah, you would thereby destroy all the universe." The Christian New Testament points to this special care at Matthew 5:18, Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, nor the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law (Torah) until everything is accomplished."
However, even for a genius like Newton, the shear size of the task involved in trying to decode a message of 304,805 characters made it impossible for him. One of the few pre-computer successes was by Rabbi H.M.D. Weissmandl of Prague. He discovered that if you take the fiftieth letter of each chapter of the Torah, it is a T, the hundredth is an O, and the hundred and fiftieth is an R, and so on to spell TORAH. (Hebrew script has no vowels, so it would actually be spelled as TRH or trh) This may have been designed as an easy hint for code-breakers, or as part of a verifying 'watermark' to show that the text is accurate.
This is the nature of the code that has been broken; Michael Drosnin in his book about the code used the following example of a coded English phrase with a skip of four letters.
Rips explained that each code is a case of adding every fourth or twelfth or
Once the letters are highlighted the coded message is obvious:
Rips explained that each code is a case of adding every fourth or twelfth or
As in this case, the messages encoded in the Torah are short and scattered, and they are not confined to skips of four or fifty.
By the late 1980's it was possible to write software to run on a personal computer that could reliably, and quickly, resort the whole Torah using varying skip lengths. This process brings letters next to each other that were originally separated by the skip length. This process revealed a new dimension to the coded messages. A good example of this is Michael Drosnin's discovery about Yitzhak Rabin.
Michael obtained the software necessary to search for the hidden messages. He discovered the name of the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, with a skip length of 4,772.
Presumably, the computer had to search the entire text at every skip length from 1 through to 4772. You might expect that it should arise by chance in that much text, but there was more than just the name.
When the computer skips 4,772 characters each time, it gets from one end of the Torah to the other in 64 skips. It prints that as one line and then takes the second letter and skips through from there. This results in a grid, 4,772 by 64, containing the name Yitzhak Rabin. Inspection revealed the words "assassin will assassinate" going across his name like a crossword. Rabin was warned about the prediction, but he was assassinated a year later. Afterwards the name of the assassin, Amir, was also found to be close-by in the grid.
The early research by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenburg was published in the journal Statistical Science, Vol. 9, No 3, in1994. They first showed that names taken from the Encyclopedia of Great Men in Israel occurred encoded in the Torah, together with the dates of their lives, and the cities they lived in. They further showed that if the text was randomized, or another book used, such as a Hebrew edition of War and Peace, then nothing like it is found. They then calculated the enormous odds against the names occurring as they do by random chance.
Although it was proved mathematically, many people still refuse to believe it, preferring to rely on common sense. It would be almost impossible to write a book coded in this way, but definitely impossible to include precise details of future events. The code appears to be a miracle that has been time-locked into the Bible, waiting until the computer age.
We are indebted to Michael Drosnin for running interesting word searches and for publishing the results. Although many Hebrew academics are working on the codes they have not published very much so far. All the following examples are from Michael's book The Bible Code. The vocabulary, and dates, in the code are generally in the same format as would be used in present day Hebrew newspapers.
