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This serious study is by far the best book on the Bible Code.
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Satinover investigates whether the code really exists, its accuracy,
late 1980s, the secret scriptural code was first mentioned many
others the Vilna Gaon Elijah ben Solomon, Maimonides and Rabbi
Moses ben Nachman and explains how the codes are encrypted in the
Hebrew letters of the text. The next chapter recounts the discovery of
science of encryption and delves deeper into the structure of the codes
and the Jewish Torah compared to the Samaritan version. The chapters
titled The Black Fires of Holocaust and The White Fire of Destiny
vital role of cryptology in the Allied victory in the Second World War is
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work of Nechunya ben HaKanah, a student of the great Simeon bar
laid the early groundwork for the computer and the science of
Alberti and Cardano, from whose works were derived all the
Turing, whilst chapters eight and nine recount the (re)discovery of the
clustering, the scientific scrutiny applied and specific messages like the
Chapter 11, The Flames of Amalek, covers the 1991 Gulf War and
the biblical Nimrod, the man of violence of whom Hitler was a type.
Satinover also briefly discusses the book of Esther here. Chapter 12,
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The Great Sages, first looks at the interest generated by the code, then
calculation of 29.53059 days to the lunar month plus the age of the
an age of 15.3 billion years. Nechunya lived in the first century AD and
DeMin Acco in the 13th century! The work of Hugh Ross and Fazale
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Technical Appendix B considers transformations of space and time with
The 21 pages of notes are as informative as the main text of the book.
Revelation and elsewhere. The first is the attack upon "Jews who are
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based distortion of Judaism by the Samaritans. Archaeological digs
Judaic and astrological imagery. He claims that the author was not
sure and would like to direct the interested reader to Monsters &
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The fact that I was reading Richard Elliott Friedman's The Hidden
Book in the Bible at the same time made Satinover's book even
more intriguing. This hidden book was originally one narrative but was
cut up by the Bible editors so that other stories, poetry and laws were
spliced into and around it. The divided segments of this story are now
spread through nine of the Bible books from Genesis to the first two
chapters of Kings.
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A complimentary work to Satinover’s is Bible Mystery and Bible
commentary on the words "man is the image and likeness of God" and
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Satinover speculates that the discovery of the code might initiate a
there must be some absolute truth to most matters but that we may
only ever approximate it. The scientific standard of truth is the only
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Tolerant and filled with compassion, the Torah allows for wide latitude
in theological notions and for the confession: “I do not know.” Not so,
importance. The daily choices of the individual are what counts and it
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Black & white figures and illustrations throughout the book help to
explain the nature of the codes. The bibliography contains books and
concludes with an index. Cracking The Bible Code is one of the most
source.
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