Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Hedrick Gary <GaryH AT cjfm.org>]

I agree with Ken. "Hoax" implies deliberate deception. Many coders are not 
hoaxers. They really believe it.

Just for fun, I bought a Torah code program once when I was in Israel. A 
colleague and I used it to find all sorts of interesting things "encoded" in 
the text of the Torah: our own names (spelled phonetically), Zorro, Micky 
Mouse, and a bunch of other stuff.

Once you get the hang of it, it's harder to find something that's NOT 
"encoded" in the Torah than to find something that IS.

The possibilities are virtually endless when you can read forward or 
backward, up or down, diagonally, you can pick whatever skip interval you 
wish, and you don't have to worry about pesky vowels (which end up being sort 
of like wild cards and really help the process along).

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, Texas USA