Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Secret Codes
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:56 -0500
Moshe Shulman wrote:
>
> At 12:07 AM 6/14/99 -0400, yahua'sef wrote:
> >Shalom Alaikhim
> >I would like to know what do list members think about the so-called Secret
> >Codes in the Hebrew text of the Bible. Is there any validity to these
> >claims that certain letters match up in numerical patterns to spell out
> >prophecies, names of events, and the name of the Jewish Messiah?
>
> No much.
"Bible Codes" are getting a lot of press lately, hence the question is
a valid one and deserves more of a response. Aside from scribal
mnemonic devices, alliteration, alphabetical versing and acrostics,
all of which are interesting, one can take a copy of the Iliad and
come up with the same patterns of "Bible Codes" that predict the
brand of toothpaste Hitler used.