1.0 out of 5 stars
I consider myself to be quite open minded, and certainly more than a bit
intellectually and spiritually curious. It was with that intent that I
picked up a copy of this book. Between long studied traditions of
gematria in Hebrew writings to recent hypotheses on "Bible Codes" of
various types, I figured that a used, cheap quick read of this book
might provide something to chew on.
Instead, I was greeted with
assertions that dinosaurs roamed the earth as recently as 6,000 years
ago with men, and statistical probabilities and archeological
"discoveries" that support the code that the author purports to have
found, without the aid of computers, in the study of various areas of
scripture in the Masoretic Hebrew text of the Bible. The dinosaurs
caused me enough heartburn, but given that Masoretic Hebrew is only
about 1200 years old really began to cast some serious doubt as to the
veracity of the findings - especially the computer validated statistics
which "proved" the non random nature of the occurrences as noted by the
author.
End of the day, the book is quite fantastic, in the
"fantasy" fantastic way. I can't get behind the pseudoscience, and
there just isn't enough here to overcome the obvious bias of the author
toward messianic Christianity.
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