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Book was in good condition as described and arrived in a timely manner. Pleased with item received and seller.I give this book a 2 because for all its faults it did accomplish something important - introducing the public to the Bible Codes. The phenomenon is real and of great import. However, Drosnin goes overboard and starts using ELS to try to predict the future - something that cannot be done using the codes. For example, if you find "drosnin," "train," and a date, does that mean he must take that train on that date? Or should he avoid it? Or is there some other meaning altogether?
In addition, Drosnin makes the same mistake as many amateur "debunkers" who find "codes" in other texts - he does not use the same rigorous methodology or standards employed by researchers such as Witztum or Diaconis. Any text can yield ELSs in the simple sense, but what is unique about the Torah Codes is the statistical strangeness as described in Satinover's book, and the fact that the ELS features were not uncovered AFTER THE FACT, but actually PREDICTED BEFOREHAND.
For example, one researcher predicted the AHRN cluster in Leviticus just because it seemed suspicious that Aaron was not mentioned in a passage where he was of prime importance, except in the context of "sons of Aaron." Another is the prediction that they would find the names of all the fruit trees indigenous to Israel in the passage about the Garden of Eden, where no names of trees are given. This is a different kind of ELS phenomenon altogether. Finding ELSs about assassinations in texts after the fact, picking and choosing results, etc. are not fair game in serious (Torah) ELS research.
Efforts at confirmation or debunking should continue, but shoddy stuff like the "Moby Dick" codes should not undermine the real work. Drosnin's book, unfortunately, is of this kind. However, as I said, he has served a purpose (other than his own, whatever that may be) in bringing this to the forefront of public knowledge, all the more for his belief in the codes (though misguided). Vice City the other day when I noticed that the map of Vice City co-incided with an ancient map found in a copy of the Bible written in Hebrew by a rastafarian Muslim and handed down through the ages until Dan Brown got it, well, he decided that it was too far fetched for him, and decided to lend it to Michael Crichton who left it to me in his last will and (old) testament as a reward for writing an honest and informed review of his book, "State of Fear".. anyway, by allowing my character to build his vice empire according to ancient principles coded in the Torah, the game suddenly started playing itself and the characters acted out scenes from Nostradamus including predictions for the future. Quatrain 43.6 clearly states "there will come a time when this bloke does something or other which means that the eagles beak gets wedged behind the bears ear and all things that were tall became smaller , or taller or bigger, sometime possibly on a wednesday". This was obviously a prediction of the current economic downturn etc etc etc.
I enjoyed reading Mr Drosnins book, as I did actually before the events claimed had manifestly failed to happen. And beyond lies the wub or indeed if you are not sc-fi inclined, herein lies the rub. All of these future-istic "I have cracked the future of the world" crocks of bum gas that people have written cash in on our fear and wish to know the unknowable. You may as well rush out and buy "Dummies guide to Alchemy" and expect to transmute base metals into gold, if you want to know the chance of this happening unless you have access to uranium and a particle accelerator, watch Blackadder 2, the episode where Lord Percy creates purest "green".
Anyway, the bible code is entertaining and professes to be semi-scientific but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and this pudding tastes rather stale. Nothing ruins the "telling the future" business more than an inability to have your predictions come true. I enjoyed reading this book. It was easy to understand and contained information that gets you to thinking and wanting to know more about the subject. It was a book I could not put down.So an atheist can point us to a computer enhanced interpretation of the Bible which supposedly points to "the fingerprint of God" and expect us to buy into it? (Literally)
But what a minute....if what he's written has such credibility, then why wasn't this doctrine sufficient to convert Mr. Drosnin?
This is more subterfuge about "useless geneologies" and mindless chatterings designed to turn the true believer's thoughts away from Christ and back onto drivel. The accuracy of this "science" is allegedly proven by pointing to various historic events (assassinations, Hitler, even Bill Clinton as president) which the computer supposedly identified as coded prophecy.
These same historic events which are supposedly "coded" into the Bible are used as evidence to support the accuracy of the newest doctrine of December 21, 2012.
The fact that this doctrine seems to be the one thing that New Agers, mediums, psychics, spiritualists, atheists and yes....tragically....even many professed Christians....are willing to agree on, should be the red flag of fallacy.
Using this same methodology, I could procur a coded "prophecy" that Obama was going to be president from a rendition of "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
If you're reading this book to understand the Bible better, then I suggest you read the Bible instead. If you want to see the fingerprint of God, then look to Jesus Christ - His suffering, crucifixion and resurrection FOR YOUR SALVATION!
If you want something to line a bird cage with, then anything written by Michael Drosnin would finally serve a useful purpose.
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 a scientific discovery that may change the world, told by a skeptical secular reporter who became part of the story.
The three-thousand-year-old Bible code foretells events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written. It foresaw both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma City bombing, the election of Bill Clinton -- everything from World War II to Watergate, from the Holocaust to Hiroshima, from the Moon landing to the collision of a comet with Jupiter.
In a few dramatic cases detailed predictions were found in advance -- and the events then happened exactly as predicted. The date the Gulf War would begin was found weeks before the war started. The date of the Jupiter collision was found months before the blast.
The author of this book, investigative reporter Michael Drosnin, himself found the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin predicted in the Bible more than a year before the murder -- and personally warned the Prime Minister.
After the assassination happened, as predicted, when predicted, he was asked to brief the new Prime Minister of Israel and the chief of its famed intelligence agency, the Mossad.
The book is based on Drosnin's five-year investigation. The author interviewed all the experts, here and abroad. He spent many weeks with the world-class mathematician who discovered the code, Dr. Eliyahu Rips, and he met with famous mathematicians at Harvard, Yale, and Hebrew University. He talked to a senior code breaker at the top secret U.S. National Security Agency, who confirmed that there is a code in the Bible that does reveal the future.
No one yet knows if the Bible code accurately foretells what is yet to come. But the code may be a warning to this world of unprecedented danger, perhaps the real Apocalypse, a nuclear World War.
In any event, the Bible code forces us to accept what the Bible itself can only ask us to believe -- that we are not alone.
And it raises a question for us all -- does the code describe an inevitable future, or a series of possible futures whose ultimate outcome we can still decide?As God dictated the first five books of the Old Testament, He enclosed prophecies in a skip code--that is, every fifth letter in a sentence forms a word. The trouble is, the Code is so divinely complex, you need a computer to find it. Now that we have those, and author Michael Drosnin, you too can read God's secret messages in The Bible Code. Drosnin was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who turned into the Jeanne Dixon of the Middle East after "predicting" Rabin's assassination a year before it happened. Since then, with the help of mathematicians, he's been finding the bleak Future all over the Torah: an earthquake in L.A. (2010), a meteor hitting the Earth (2006, 2010, 2012, or all of these), and, of course, nuclear Armageddon (2000 or 2006). But don't write 2006 off yet, because the book says that the Code doesn't predict the Future, it merely reveals one possible future. Hmm. The Bible Code is this generation's The Late, Great Planet Earth. For those in the market, it delivers.
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