For this work, only the Hebrew text is used, the assumption being that the code disappears in translations and cannot be found in other books of equal length. The distance between the selected letters is referred to as its step value. The computer can also search the text both backward and forward. The computer searches for words formed by looking at a preselected set of letters-every third letter or every twelfth letter, for example.
Choosing preselected words and dates, a computer can quickly search the text in a unique manner. 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. The more popularized presentation by Drosnin grew out of the research of a set of Israeli scholars, most notably Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg. Those who have subsequently supported the idea of a coded message in the Bible have also put forth a belief that the existence of such a code leads to the conclusion that God actually authored the text.
In 1997 a book entitled The Bible Code, authored by journalist Michael Drosnin, pushed the claims even further, suggesting the prediction of events prior to their occurrence, most notably the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Throughout the 1990s a number of claims have been made that the text of the Hebrew Bible, what most Christians call the Old Testament, in particular the book of Genesis, contains references to a variety of contemporary events and persons completely unknown to those who wrote the biblical books. Bible Code (religion, spiritualism, and occult)
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