Christological Torah

Who Wrote the Torah

The issue of the authorship of the Torah is important for at least this one reason: since the book claims to have been written by a certain writer, it is simply a matter of integrity that that claim is verified. If this claim to authorship is not substantiated, then why should we trust what that book says? In short, if the Torah claims to be written by Moshe, and we find that it is, in fact, no...

The Torah code controversy

In this paper we briefly explain what a Torah code is and give an example of one. We show how to calculate the probability of its occurrence in a suitably defined population of texts. We explain how it is possible to misadvertise the computed probabilities, making it seem that the probability of a Torah code is very small. We briefly discuss the controversy and suggest that new more carefully c...

A Chronology of Torah Cryptography

Sometime during the early part of 1997 the author became aware of the controversial paper “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis” [Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg, 1994] (WRR). This paper brought to the attention of a wider audience the possibility that the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was some kind of cryptographic material. Though this work was countered by a lat...

Torah Codes: New Experimental Protocols

Because of its unexpected nature, finding words as equidistant letter sequences (Torah codes) in a text may appear to be interesting. However, there is a significant probability that they occur by chance. In this paper we discuss a repeatable and objective methodology for defining a priori related pairs of key words for use in an experiment and we define a testing methodlogoy for testing the hy...

THE TORAH A Modern Commentary