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The Bible Code: Cracked and Crumbling

Snake Oil for Sale

By Shlomo Sternberg

The recent massive publicity surrounding Michael Drosnin’s book The Bible Code has aroused, alas, a great deal of interest in the patently ridiculous idea that future events were encoded in the “original Hebrew” text of the Bible—and done in such a way that they could only be decoded in our day with computers.

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Footnotes

1.

See Jeffrey Satinover, “Divine Authorship?” BR 11:05.

2.

See Readers Reply, BR 12:01.