Kode Alkitab: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

Banyak contoh telah didokumentasi di masa lampau. Salah satu yang sering dikutip adalah dari [[Kitab Kejadian]], di mana dengan mengurutkan setiap huruf ke-50 mulai dari huruf [[taw (huruf Ibrani)|''taw'']] yang pertama (pada [[Kejadian 1:1]]), akan terbaca [[bahasa Ibrani|kata Ibrani]] yang bermakna "[[Taurat]]". Hal yang sama dapat ditemukan dalam [[Kitab Keluaran]] (setiap huruf ke-50 dari huruf [[taw (huruf Ibrani)|''taw'']] yang muncul pertama di kitab itu) is. Pada [[Kitab Bilangan]] dan [[Kitab Ulangan]] kata yang sama muncul dengan jarak huruf masing-masing 50 dan 49, tetapi dieja terbalik.

Although the above examples are in English texts, Bible codes proponents usually use a [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] Bible text. For religious reasons, most Jewish proponents use only the [[Torah]] (Genesis–Deuteronomy).

 

 

Once a specific word has been found as an ELS, it is natural to see if that word is part of a longer ELS consisting of multiple words.<ref>Shak, Moshe Aharon. 2004. ''Bible Codes Breakthrough''. Montreal: Green Shoelace Books. 38</ref> For example, in the middle of the rightmost column of the boxed matrix above is the ELS "he". After searching immediately above and below this ELS, we see another ELS ("toe") that is right below the "he" ELS. Code pioneers Haralick and Rips have published an example of a longer, extended ELS, which reads, "Destruction I will call you; cursed is Bin Laden and revenge is to the [[Messiah]]."<ref>Haralick, Rips, and Glazerson. 2005. ''Torah Codes: A Glimpse into the Infinite''. New York: Mazal & Bracha. 125</ref>

ELS extensions that form phrases or sentences are of interest. It follows from the basics of probability theory that the longer the extended ELS, the less likely it is to be the result of chance.<ref>Sherman, R. Edwin, with Jacobi and Swaney. 2005. ''Bible Code Bombshell'' Green Forest, Ar.: New Leaf Press. 95–109</ref>

 

Jewish culture has a long tradition of interpretation, annotation, and [[Jewish commentaries on the Bible|commentary]] regarding the Bible, leading to both [[exegesis]] and [[eisegesis]] (drawing meaning from and imposing meaning on the texts). The Bible code can be viewed as a part of this tradition, albeit one of the more controversial parts. Throughout history, many Jewish, and later Christian, scholars have attempted to find hidden or coded messages within the Bible's text, notably including [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Isaac Newton|url=http://jahtruth.net/newton.htm|publisher=JAH Publications}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bible Code|url=http://www.paranormality.com/bible_code.shtml|publisher=paranormality.com}}</ref>

 

Since 2000, physicist Nathan Jacobi, an agnostic Jew, and engineer Moshe Aharon Shak, an orthodox Jew, claim to have discovered hundreds of examples of lengthy, extended ELSs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biblecodedigest.com |title=Find what you are looking for |publisher=biblecodedigest.com |accessdate=October 6, 2010| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20101026015526/http://biblecodedigest.com/| archivedate= October 26, 2010 | deadurl= no}}</ref> The number of extended ELSs at different lengths is compared with those expected from a non-encoded text, as determined by a formula from [[Markov chain]] theory.<ref>Sherman, R. Edwin, with Jacobi and Swaney. 2005. ''Bible Code Bombshell'' Green Forest, Ar.: New Leaf Press. 281–286</ref>

 

 

The precise order of consonantal letters represented in the Hebrew [[Masoretic Text]] was only finalized in its current form in the first century, largely through the energies of Rabbi [[Akiva ben Joseph]]. However, it is known from earlier versions, such as the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]], that the number of letters was not constant before this. The Bible code theory thus does not seem to account for these variations.<ref>J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays, 2012, ''Grasping God's Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible'', p. 337. "The scholarly rebuttals to Bible codes have been devastating. These rebuttals have provided strong evidence that there is nothing mystical or divine about ELS. The arguments leveled against this method of finding secret messages fall into two basic categories: that relating to probability, and that relating to textual variations... Textual variations: Another flaw in the ELS approach is that its proponents seem unaware of variations in the text of the Old Testament..."</ref>