Editing The Bible Code (book) (section)

==''The Bible Code'' and its interpretation of Bible Code theory==

Drosnin describes an alleged "[[Bible code]]", in which messages are encoded in the [[Hebrew Bible]]. The messages are purported to be hidden in the [[Torah]], and can be deciphered by placing the letters of various Torah passages at equal intervals in a text that has been formatted to fit inside a graph.

Drosnin suggests that the code was written by [[extraterrestrial life]] (which he claims also brought the [[DNA]] of the human [[genetic code]] to Earth). Drosnin elaborates on this theory in ''[[Bible Code II: The Countdown]]'', suggesting that the alien who brought the code left the key to the code in a steel [[obelisk]]. Drosnin attempted to find this obelisk, which he believes is buried near the [[Dead Sea]].

Drosnin's book claims to be based on the technique described in the 1994 paper "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the [[Book of Genesis]]" by [[Eliyahu Rips]], [[Doron Witztum]], and [[Yoav Rosenberg]],<ref>{{cite journal |title=Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis |author1-first=Doron |author1-last=Witztum |author2-first=Eliyahu |author2-last=Rips |author3-first=Yoav |author3-last=Rosenberg |journal=[[Statistical Science]] |volume=9 |year=1994 |pages=429–438}}</ref> who have all denounced the conclusions drawn in ''The Bible Code''.<ref name=nams>{{cite journal |url=http://www.ams.org/notices/199708/review-allyn.pdf |date=September 1997 |title=''The Bible Code''. Review by Allyn Jackson; commentary by Shlomo Sternberg |first1=Allyn |last1=Jackson |first2=Shlomo |last2=Sternberg |author-link2=Shlomo Sternberg|journal=[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society]] |pages=935–939}}</ref>