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Article: Cracking the Bible Code.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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By JEFFREY SATINOVER. Morrow. 346 pp. $23.
Reviewed by William A. Dembski
The "Bible Code" is the name for computer-generated sequences of letters taken from the Hebrew Bible. Researchers string all the letters together, deleting spaces between words. Then, instead of running through the text letter by adjacent letter (as we do in ordinary reading), they run through the text by skipping a fixed number of letters. The resulting sequences, known as equidistant letter sequences (or ELSs), are then inspected for patterns that cannot reasonably be attributed to chance. The Bible Code comprises such equidistant letter sequences.
The Bible Code is ...