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A few pertinent links on the "Bible Codes":

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9712/opinion/wittes.html

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/bib-code.html

http://www.torahcodes.co.il/

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Thanks.

Maybe I can check them out after getting my class prep done.

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If the phenomenon were due merely to chance, the authors reasoned, they would be as likely to find an ELS naming Rabbi X near one identifying the birthday of Rabbi Y as they would be to find X near his own date. But while this was true for the control texts, it wasn’t true for Genesis. In Genesis, rather, the rabbis were not only mostly present in ELSs, but they tended to appear closer to their own dates than to the dates of one another. When the Witztum group analyzed these findings, they found there was only a one in fifty thousand possibility that such a coding scheme could have occurred as a result of chance.
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I found that paragraph rather fascinating. It's a detail I'd missed somehow in earlier reading of that study.

From your first link.

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The first link is a bit dated.

McKay's group were later caught in some rank dishonesty in their behaviors and claims, IIRC. I think that's pretty well presented at the BIBLECODEDIGEST.COM website.

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Have posted many excerpts from the links you provided on this Bible Codes thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1685645/posts?page=28