Editing Bible code (section)

==Overview==
Discussion around one specific [[steganography|steganographic]] method became widespread in 1994 when Doron Witztum, [[Eliyahu Rips]] and Yoav Rosenberg published a paper, "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", in the scientific journal ''[[Statistical Science]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Torres |first=Monty |date=2012-02-02 |title=Secret Codes In The Bible And The Torah? Investigators YES! |url=https://kmph.com/archive/kmph-special-report-bible-codes-2012 |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=KMPH |language=en}}</ref><ref name="WRR">{{cite journal |author1=Doron Witztum |author2=Eliyahu Rips |author3=Yoav Rosenberg | title = Equidistant letter sequences in the Book of Genesis | journal = Statistical Science | volume = 9 | year = 1994 | issue = 3 | pages = 429–438 | doi = 10.1214/ss/1177010393|citeseerx=10.1.1.495.9620 }}</ref> The paper, which was presented by the journal as a "challenging puzzle", presented what appeared to be strong statistical evidence that biographical information about famous rabbis was encoded in the text of the Book of Genesis, centuries before those rabbis lived.<ref name="Equidistant">{{Cite web|title=Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis|url=http://www.torahcode.co.il/pdf_files/pub/wrr.pdf}}</ref>