Pdf equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. Define an equidistant letter sequence els as a sequence of letters in the text whose positions, not counting spaces, form an arithmetic progression. Scientists claim bible is written in code that predicts. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis witztum, doron, rips, eliyahu, and rosenberg, yoav, statistical science, 1994. The remarkable word patterns in the book of genesis the. Torah which means the law refers to the first 5 books of the bible genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy, locate the. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. This session examines elss in genesis 1, providing more evidence of gods supernatural hand of design in the original hebrew text of the bible. Torah codes are virtually synonymous with bible codes, except torah codes emphasizes the first five books of the biblethe books of moses. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often appear in close proximity. In their paper 2 witztum, rips and rosenberg wrr claimed to have statistically proved the existence of a hidden code in the book of genesis giving information about personalities living many centuries after the book of genesis was written. This article describes an experiment which seems to show a remarkable proximity between.
Bible codes software the theory of the bible codes. Witztum, rips and rosenberg 4 have shown that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays with the topology of a cylinder, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg abstract. The relation to the text doron witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. A computer then finds hidden words, encoded at equal skips of letters. Several hebrew scholars took the book of genesis and using a computer they discovered equidistant letter sequences. They are acrostics formed from either the first or last letters of a sequence of words, read either forwards or. Quantitative tools for measuring this phenomenon are developed.
A group of dedicated jewish scholars in israel, following up on rabbi weissmandls research, found many additional hidden codes embedded within the text of the torah. Equidistant letter sequence checksums the written word mettle stylus. In a recent paper, witztum, rips and rosenberg found a surprising correlation between famous rabbis and their dates of birth and death, as they appear as equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. Thanks for sharing those equidistant letter sequences. Quantitative tools for measuring this phenomenon are. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often. The inspiration for drosnins book came from the 1994 paper equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, published in the journal. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis jstor. This proof consists of thousands of words hidden in codes. Bible code skip sequences in genesis 1 discoveries by. Equidistant letter sequences els equaldistance or equidistant letter sequences can be discovered when, instead of reading a text normallyone letter at a timehidden words are looked for by reading the text every 2, or 3, or 4, etc.
But the patterns in esther which we have been discussing in the other thread are not elss. Although bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has been popularized in modern times by michael drosnins book the bible code and the movie the omega code. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. This hidden code has been described as a method by which specific letters. Define an els equidistant letter sequence as a sequence of letters in the text whose positions, not counting spaces, form an arithmetic progression. The bible code in 1994 doron witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg published an article in the journal statistical science. Statisticians call this phenomenon an els short for equidistant letter sequence. The code is called the bible code or the torah code. Choosing preselected words and dates, a computer can quickly search the text in a unique manner.
Patterns of equidistant letter sequence pairs in genesis. In their article, the researchers publish their findings of an experiment that they conducted regarding equidistant letter sequences els i. A paper of witztum, rips and rosenberg in this journal in 1994 made the. They found embedded in the text of the hebrew bible the names of people. The bible code also known as the torah code, is a purported set of secret messages encoded within the hebrew text of the torah. Equidistant letter sequences in tolstoys war and peace. The code is revealed by searching for equidistant letter sequences els.
For example, start with any letter l and read every n th letter n thereafter in the book, not counting spaces. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words often appear in close proximity with portions of the text which have related meaning. A paper called equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, was published in 1988 in the scholarly journal of the royal statistical society. Their method for detecting the presumed encrypted knowledge was known as equidistant letter sequencing els. Randomization analysis shows that the effect is significant at the level of 0. Els stands for equaldistance or equidistant letter sequences. Statsciequidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg searched the book of genesis looking for pairs of words spelled by picking out every dth letter, where d is some integer. Equidistant letter sequence checksums the written word. Introduction on the paper of witztum, rips and rosenberg on equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. The theory of the bible codes states that inside the biblical hebrew text, names and events have been encoded by god dictating the pentateuch to moses letter by letter in an exact sequence. Chuck missler gives an early introduction to the exciting subject of equidistant letter sequences els and hidden. These codes can not be deciphered by a normal reading of the text but can be found by a decoding technique called equidistant letter sequence, or els.
Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Equidistant letter sequences els drosnins analysis is based upon earlier work by doron witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg, who published equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis in statistical science, vol. On the paper of witztum, rips and rosenberg on equidistant. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis 1994. Equidistant letter skip sequences in the hebrew text of the old testament reveal significant words and phrases.
The basic idea behind equidistant letter sequences els also known as bible code is this. Bible codes in 1997 a theory emerged that the bible contains hidden mathematical messages. Chuck missler examines the occurrence of amazing hidden codes within the very text of the book of genesis that foretell the coming of jesus christ as the messiah. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis project euclid.
If an entire book such as genesis is searched, the. Subsequent to the success of drosnins book, biblecode research. At the heart of the current controversy is a scientific paper by three israeli mathematicians with the helpful title of. Equidistant letter sequences article about equidistant. This article witztum, rips, and rosenberg became a reference point for journalist michael drosnin, who wrote the bestselling book, the bible code, shortly thereafter.
In 1994 israeli mathematicians eliyahu rips, doron witztum, and yoav rosenberg published some landmark articles in the journal statistical science that started the current craze. Solving the bible code puzzle brendan mckay, dror barnatan, maya barhillel, and gil kalai abstract. Citeseerx equidistant letter sequences in the book of. Pdf it has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with. A paper was published in 1988 in the scholarly journal of the royal statistical society, entitled equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. Els sequential listing by ian michaels professors of mathematical scholarship at yale, harvard, and the hebrew university have discovered a phenomenon, as they call it, of equidistant letter sequences in the bible, so named because at equal skip distances, in the bible, hebrew letters spell out related meanings to the coherent text, they are embedded in. It was entitled equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. Had this been true, it would have enhanced our reverence of the scriptures by showing, in another way, that they are of divine origin. This hidden code has been described as a method by which specific letters from the text can be selected to reveal an otherwise obscured message. We make a smaller or equal number of mistakes, and find the same phenomenon in tolstoys eternal creation war and peace. In 1994 the trio published a rather unassuming article, equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, which detailed their discoveries from computer searches of the hebrew text of the bible. Drosnins book claims to be based on the technique described in the 1994 paper equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis by eliyahu rips, doron witztum, and yoav rosenberg, who have all denounced the conclusions drawn in the bible code.
My thoughts are that it is yet another pitiful, embarrassing attempt at finding divine revelation in an old book. Statsci equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis statistical science 1994, vol. This article describes an experiment which seems to show a remarkable proximity between names of rabbis and their dates of birth or death in the book of genesis. The pairs of words were names of personalities and dates of. This particular article is called equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as two dimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often appear in close proximity. Pdf it has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as two dimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with. A quite technical paper, it was published in statistical science in 1994. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, statistical science, august 1994, p. Patterns of colinear equidistant letter sequences and verses. They constructed a copy of genesis without punctuation and spaces, just as in the original. As an example of an equidistant letter sequence or, more briefly, an els, it was noticed several decades ago by rabbi weissmandel that the word torah occurs spelled out as t, o, r, h in their hebrew equivalents in the book of genesis by starting from the first t. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg.
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