The Secret Code Hoax

If the Bible is the ineffable word of God, then it makes sense that all truth is to be found in it. An early rabbinic sage by the delightful name of Ben Bag-Bag said, “Turn it and turn it again, for all things are in it.”1 The history of biblical interpretation is filled with attempts to discern the hidden secrets of the Bible. The earliest is probably the Book of Daniel’s attempt to understand Jeremiah’s prophecy of 70 years of desolation, which the angel Gabriel decodes as a cipher that really means 70 weeks of years of desolation (Daniel […]