Expert Opinions on the Bible Codes

In this section we give a selection of opinion articles, book reviews, and similar things. Many of these are links to off-site pages. Opinions in these articles do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the author of this page.

• A public statement by 55 mathematicians.
• Prof. Menachem Cohen, Dept of Bible, Bar-Ilan University -
  • Article on the history of the Bible text
  • first letter and second letter about the data in the famous rabbis experiment.
  • The religious and scientific aspects of the debate.
    Part 1. Hebrew: PDF   English: HTML  PDF
• Prof. Barry Simon - article for Jewish Action.
  Now included are replies from Daniel Mechanic and Doron Witztum, and Prof. Simon's rejoinder.
• Prof. Jeffrey Tigay, A. M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania - refutation of the codes from a textual perspective.
• Prof. Robert Kass, the Editor of Statistical Science when the codes paper was published - public statement.
• Statistician Professor A. M. Hasofer - Opinion Article and Statistical Critique.
• Prof. Alex Lubotsky - article in Haaretz.
• Witztum, Rips, Rosenberg and Drosnin share the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Prof. Gil Kalai - Analysis of the great rabbis data.
• Physicist Mark Perakh - four articles describing some interesting experiments and analysis.
• Prof. Barry Simon and Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein - Lecture on the Codes available by audio or video feed.

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