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  • From: kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <transcriber AT tanach.us>, <aamundrud AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] My name translated to ancient Hebrew.
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:14:34 +0000


It is not a hoax if you believe something is true for religious reasons and
statistical reasons. Those two mathematicians sincerely believed in the Bible
Code.

Kenneth Greifer

> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:52:15 -0500
> From: transcriber AT tanach.us
> To: aamundrud AT yahoo.com
> CC: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] My name translated to ancient Hebrew.
>
>
> No credibility whatsoever. See Shlomo Sternberg's "Comments on 'The
> Bible Code' " at the end of
>
> <http://www.ams.org/notices/199708/review-allyn.pdf>.
>
> He's a professor of mathematics at Harvard. To quote him:
>
>
> The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin exploits a hoax
> perpetrated by two Israelis, E. Rips and D. Witztum,
> which purports that there are messages about the
> future encrypted in the Hebrew text of the Bible—
> codes which can only be deciphered by computer.
> It is easy to give a concise explanation of why this
> is a hoax, and so I shall do so here. ...
>
>
>
> Chris Kimball
> West Redding, CT
> USA
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