The Bible Code is a best-selling controversial book by Michael Drosnin , first published in 1997.

Drosnin describes a "Bible code", in this case messages that allegedly are encoded in the Torah. The purported messages are supposed to be hidden in the Torah by placing their letters at equal intervals in the text.

Drosnin's book is based on the technique described in the paper "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" by Eliyahu Rips of the Hebrew University in Israel together with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg . A sequel, The Bible Code II, was published in 2002 and also reached best-seller status.

For a discussion of bible codes and debates about their validity, see Bible code.

External links

• Hidden Messages and The Bible Code
• "Scientific Refutation of the Bible Codes" by Brendan McKay and others
• Dror Bar-Natan's Bible Code page

Related literature

• Michael Drosnin. The Bible Code. Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0684810794.
• Jeffrey Satinover: "Cracking the Bible Code". Wm Morrow, 1997. ISBN 0688154638. Appeared slightly later, follows a more historical and traditional route.