Category:Bible Code (subject)

Bible Code

Overview

The idea that a set of secret messages is encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah, is very ancient in both Christianity and Judaism and can be traced back in ancient times in some allegorical interpretations, as the ones we find in the Jewish Hellenistic traditions of the Letter of Aristeas and Philo, and in the Christian Letter of Barnabas.

Example of gematria are numerous both in the Rabbinic and Christian reading of the Torah. In Hebrew and Greek, each letter possesses a numerical value. Gematria is the calculation of the numerical equivalence of letters, words, or phrases, and throughout history, many Jewish and Christian scholars have attempted to find hidden or coded messages within the Bible's text based on gematria.

In contemporary times, the application of computer science to the biblical text has led to the "discovery" of coincidental sequences of words, interpreted as a secret code encoded in the text.

The search for hidden secret codes is a fascinating chapter in the history of the interpretation of the Bible.