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- From: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
- To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Secret Codes
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:02:39 +1000
In answer to Wondell's question: A friend of mine showed me the work on the
codes and I must say I
was incredibly disappointed!! Most of the "codes" are just gibberish,
grammatically incoherent,
vague, open to multiple interpretation, etc. The reason it is so deceptively
striking is that
archaic Hebrew has no vowels. Without this restriction, you can apply any
vowel after a consonant
to get whatever you want it to say. If you tried this with an English text,
say the works of
Shakespeare, you wouldn't get nearly as much "hidden code" as you do with
Hebrew because English
has vowels. Similarly, if you took the Iliad, you wouldn't get as much "code"
either because Greek
has vowels. The lack of vowels in Hebrew facilitates the discovery of "codes".
In short - the codes are really just a random geometric phenomenon which
works because Hebrew has
no vowels. There are no deliberately hidden messages at all! Pay them no
credence.
Regards.
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GEORGE ATHAS
Dept of Semitic Studies,
University of Sydney
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-
Secret Codes,
yahua'sef, 06/14/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Secret Codes, Moshe Shulman, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Jack Kilmon, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Ian Hutchesson, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Mark Markham, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, peter_kirk, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Jim West, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Andre Desnitsky, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, SAlbert, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, George Athas, 06/14/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Will Wagers, 06/15/1999
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Re[2]: Secret Codes,
peter_kirk, 06/16/1999
- Re[2]: Secret Codes, Will Wagers, 06/16/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, atombomb AT sirius.com, 06/16/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, George Athas, 06/16/1999
- Re[2]: Secret Codes, peter_kirk, 06/17/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, John Ronning, 06/17/1999
- Re: Secret Codes, Marcio L Redondo, 06/17/1999
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