First off, I will begin by saying that Michael Drosnin gives the reader the flavor of working through a thriller. Written in 1996-1997, the book outlines what Drosnin believes is a hidden code in the Bible that warns modern readers who can utilize computer technology about such items as the assasination of Rabin, the coming of WWII, Hitler, the atomic bomb and more.
Drosnin provides statistical "proof" for the approach, and demonstrates how the code may have predicted many of the things which have come to pass. He also shows that these probabilities, as shown in the Bible, don't hold up as well in other texts, like War and Peace or Shakespeare.
For this skeptical reader, I would only note that the Bible Code as put forth by Drosnin uses Hebrew without masoretes. Hebrew is a "vowelless" base language. So the code could show the (Hebrew) letter combination RBN and it could mean Ruben, Rabin, Reben, or pretty much any other combination. It provides for much more "flexibility" in interpreting the code than most langauge systems would. And since the code can be read forwards, backwards, horizontally, vertically or with "skips" (and sometimes all of these), WITHOUT vowels, it isn't quite as challenging to find in the 350,000 words of the Hebrew Tanakh associations that may lead to the interpretations as Drosnin presents them.
It is a semi-interesting enough read, if only as a somewhat thrilling adventure novel, and the theory is somewhat interesting as well - if far fetched to this skeptic.
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