The newly published book The Bible Code (Simon & Schuster) claims to have uncovered secret messages in the Bible, including a prediction of the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and even more dire predictions for the entire world. Book buyers are gobbling up copies like the proverbial hotcakes. At $25 per copy, how much do they have to lose? Answer: $25. The book’s slipshod math and numerous textual errors are exposed by Harvard University mathematician Shlomo Sternberg and BR book review editor and columnist Ronald Hendel in “The Bible Code: Cracked and Crumbling.” Until recently scholars gave […]
