Bible Code

The Bible code (Hebrew: צפנים בתנ"ך‎), also known as the Torah code, is a method described as a "hidden code" of selecting letters from within the Hebrew Bible that form words and phrases supposedly demonstrating foreknowledge and prophecy. The study and results from this cipher have been popularized by Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Code.

Examples have been documented in the past. One cited example is that by taking every 50th letter of the Book of Genesis, the Hebrew word for "bible" is spelled out. The same word is found similarly in each of the other five books of Moses. Modern computers were used to search for similar patterns and more complex variants, and reported in an academic paper in 1994 and later as a book. Drosnin and proponents hold that it is exceedingly unlikely such sequences could arise by chance, while skeptics and opponents hold that such sequences do often arise by chance, as demonstrated on other Hebrew and English texts.