Editing Bible code (section)

{{short description|Purported set of secret messages encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah}}
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[[File:Bible code in Exodus 1,1-6.jpg|280px|right|thumb|[[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] 1:1–6. Biblia Hebraica from Kittel's edition (BHK) 1909. Four letters, fifty letters apart, starting from the first {{Transliteration|he|[[taw]]}} on the first verse, form the word {{lang|he|תורה}} ({{Transliteration|he|Torah}}).]]

The '''Bible code''' ({{langx|he|הצופן התנ"כי}}, {{Transliteration|he|hatzofen hatanachi}}), also known as the '''Torah code''', is a purported set of [[Cryptography|encoded]] words within a Hebrew text of the [[Torah]] that, according to proponents, has predicted significant historical events. The statistical likelihood of the Bible code arising by chance has been thoroughly researched, and it is now widely considered to be [[statistically insignificant]], as similar phenomena can be observed in any sufficiently lengthy text.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=McKay|first1=Brendan|last2=Bar-Natan|first2=Dror|last3=Bar-Hillel|first3=Maya|last4=Kalai|first4=Gil|date=May 1999|title=Solving the Bible Code Puzzle|url=https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009212243|journal=Statistical Science|language=en|volume=14|issue=2|pages=150–173|doi=10.1214/ss/1009212243|issn=0883-4237|doi-access=free}}</ref> Although Bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has been popularized in modern times by [[Michael Drosnin]]'s book ''[[The Bible Code (book)|The Bible Code]]'' (1997) and the movie ''[[The Omega Code]]'' (1999).

Some tests purportedly showing statistically significant codes in the Bible were published as a "challenging puzzle" in a peer-reviewed academic journal in 1994,<ref name="Equidistant" /> which was pronounced "solved" in a subsequent 1999 paper published in the same journal.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kass|first=Robert E.|date=May 1999|title=Introduction to "Solving the Bible Code Puzzle" by Brendan McKay, Dror BarNatan, Maya BarHillel and Gil Kalai|url=https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009212242|journal=Statistical Science|language=en|volume=14|issue=2|pages=149|doi=10.1214/ss/1009212242|issn=0883-4237|doi-access=free}}
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