ELS Search

Finds words spelled by letters at an equal skip in the Torah, a book or the Tanakh read as one stream, and sets each count beside chance: the number the letters’ frequencies give, and the counts with the letters, or the chapters, shuffled. Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (1994) claimed significant patterns in Genesis; McKay, Bar-Natan, Bar-Hillel and Kalai (1999) traced them to the choices made.

• D. Witztum, E. Rips and Y. Rosenberg, “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis”, Statistical Science 9 (3), 1994, pp. 429–438
• B. McKay, D. Bar-Natan, M. Bar-Hillel and G. Kalai, “Solving the Bible Code Puzzle”, Statistical Science 14 (2), 1999, pp. 150–173