Hebrew Bible Code Online
. Total: 84.Learn about the Hebrew Bible in of 25 video lectures by Shaye Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University. This course, which you can start and stop any time, surveys the major books and ideas of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Old Testament), examining the historical context in which the texts emerged and were redacted.A major subtext of this is the distinction between how the Bible was read by ancient interpreters (whose interpretations became the basis for many iconic literary and artistic works of Western Civilization) and how it is approached by modern Bible scholarship. James Kugel, former Harvard professor and author of the course’s textbook, contends that these ways of reading the Bible are mutually exclusive. Professor Shaye Cohen respectfully disagrees.The course syllabus is your primary road map; it contains general information about the course and lists the topics covered and assigned readings for each of the 25 lectures. Video recordings of each lecture can be viewed alongside Professor Cohen’s lecture notes. A series of timelines is available to illustrate aspects of the course which unfold over time.Sample the course by watching Professor Shaye Cohen’s first lecture.
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Seems that Dr Cohen is intent on destroying the authority of Scripture here. I am not in any sense an Hebrew scholar and am not of the academic eminence of either Dr Cohen or the author to whom he refers throughout these notes, named Krugel. I suspect that both Cohen and Krugel come to this task lacking the faith without which it is impossible to please God; deliberately misrepresenting certain issues within Scripture from an unduly sceptical standpoint, ignoring other scholarship; and overall giving me the impression that “MBS” defined as Modern Biblical Scholarship is in itself a cynical in-joke. Thank you so very much for posting Dr. Cohen’s series of lectures. I have listened carefully to each one and am studying the lecture notes.
Cohen does an excellent job of examining the varying viewpoints of traditionalists and modern biblical scholars. I am writing a book of historical fiction about various women in the Hebrew and Christian bibles and I now have a much deeper understanding of biblical history and context. Active webcam 11.6 registration key.
Thank you for offering intelligent and provocative insights that are understandable to those of us who are trained in fields other than biblical history and archaeology. Shaye Cohen lectures with an underlying sense of humor that some people don’t really pick up.
He is very fair-minded to traditional and modern viewpoints.If you go into this series with a stubborn conviction that you’ve got everything figured out, you will miss out on many intriguing observations. Even so, if you believe in the transcendence of G-d’s Word, there’s nothing to fear from exploring the motivations of those who authored, edited, and collected the anthology of material that we now call ‘The Bible’. As the article states, the course syllabus is the roadmap for this course.
I have always found that you can identify the biases of many professors of religion/philosophy/history by study of the syllabus and course notes. I have to say that this professor seems to approach the course with an unapologetic humanist approach. The title of the course, “The Hebrew Bible,” seems a bit misleading, as if your going to study the Hebrew Bible within its own context, rather than try and pick it apart by forcing it into the context of the rest of the world at that time. The point of the Hebrew Bible was, in fact, to make a separation between a group of people from the rest of the world. Approaching the Hebrew Bible from a humanist stance will obviously not enlighten the reader to the merits of the text, but rather only give value to those who choose to criticize it. A better name for this course would seem to be, “Critiquing the Hebrew Bible against the ANE.”.
Dear Naysayers;I’m going to assume you did not click on the links to the actual course, rather you clicked the video watched five minutes and made a comment.If you had actually did more than watch five minutes you would have noted this is a course offered at Harvard College (I believe recorded in 2013) complete with 78 pages of notes, 24 other lectures, 2 papers, a mid-term and final exam. Perhaps the word “elementary” is a bit harsh considering this is a brief introduction to his course.I’m just sayin’.
Seems that Dr Cohen is intent on destroying the authority of Scripture here. I am not in any sense an Hebrew scholar and am not of the academic eminence of either Dr Cohen or the author to whom he refers throughout these notes, named Krugel.
I suspect that both Cohen and Krugel come to this task lacking the faith without which it is impossible to please God; deliberately misrepresenting certain issues within Scripture from an unduly sceptical standpoint, ignoring other scholarship; and overall giving me the impression that “MBS” defined as Modern Biblical Scholarship is in itself a cynical in-joke. Thank you so very much for posting Dr. Cohen’s series of lectures. I have listened carefully to each one and am studying the lecture notes.
Cohen does an excellent job of examining the varying viewpoints of traditionalists and modern biblical scholars. I am writing a book of historical fiction about various women in the Hebrew and Christian bibles and I now have a much deeper understanding of biblical history and context. Thank you for offering intelligent and provocative insights that are understandable to those of us who are trained in fields other than biblical history and archaeology. Shaye Cohen lectures with an underlying sense of humor that some people don’t really pick up. He is very fair-minded to traditional and modern viewpoints.If you go into this series with a stubborn conviction that you’ve got everything figured out, you will miss out on many intriguing observations.
Even so, if you believe in the transcendence of G-d’s Word, there’s nothing to fear from exploring the motivations of those who authored, edited, and collected the anthology of material that we now call ‘The Bible’. As the article states, the course syllabus is the roadmap for this course. I have always found that you can identify the biases of many professors of religion/philosophy/history by study of the syllabus and course notes. I have to say that this professor seems to approach the course with an unapologetic humanist approach. The title of the course, “The Hebrew Bible,” seems a bit misleading, as if your going to study the Hebrew Bible within its own context, rather than try and pick it apart by forcing it into the context of the rest of the world at that time.
The point of the Hebrew Bible was, in fact, to make a separation between a group of people from the rest of the world. Approaching the Hebrew Bible from a humanist stance will obviously not enlighten the reader to the merits of the text, but rather only give value to those who choose to criticize it.
A better name for this course would seem to be, “Critiquing the Hebrew Bible against the ANE.”. Dear Naysayers;I’m going to assume you did not click on the links to the actual course, rather you clicked the video watched five minutes and made a comment.If you had actually did more than watch five minutes you would have noted this is a course offered at Harvard College (I believe recorded in 2013) complete with 78 pages of notes, 24 other lectures, 2 papers, a mid-term and final exam. Perhaps the word “elementary” is a bit harsh considering this is a brief introduction to his course.I’m just sayin’.
Bible Codes (ELS) made simpleA word to the readerI did this study without any preconceived ideas of the 'codes' being right or wrong. I merely looked at the facts, and wrote them as I found them.Please read the document carefully before asking questions which are covered in the material. The material is not complicated, in spite of having a few graphs.
Hebrew Bible Code Online Search
Just read it.What is it?The best way to explain what the 'Bible Codes' is, is by using an example.Let's take the first verse in the Bible, Genesis 1:1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.We then remove all punctuation, spaces, and we make all the letters the same case (lower case or upper case). We end up with one long string of letters.inthebeginninggodcreatedtheheavenandtheearthWe now start looking for hidden words (codes) in this string. One example is shown.inthebe G inningg O dcreate D theheavenandtheearthIf we start at the 8 th letter, and we take every 8 th letter, we find the word 'god'. We started at position 8, and used a constant spacing (ELS) of 8. We now break the string into smaller pieces in such a way that the word is written top-down.inthebe G inninggodinningg O dcreatedtdcreate D theheavenThe word 'god' that we found, crosses 3 other words, namely 'beginning', 'God' and 'created'.inthe be G inninggodinning g O dcreatedtd create D theheavenOther words can be also be found near this word e.g.
The word 'age'.intheb E Ginninggodinnin G g Odcreatedtdcre A te DtheheavenDifferent 'theories' can now be proven (or disproved) usingthis information.Note: If you find the word 'branham', and it crosses the word 'prophet', it does not conclusively provethat William Marrion Branham was a true prophet of God.The questions you should ask are:. Which Branham? William Branham, Billy-Paul Branham, Joseph Branham, David Branham or any of the hundreds ofother Branhams in the world?. Does the word 'prophet' refer to a true prophet, or a false prophet?Don't jump to conclusions without having the facts.Some logicLet us look at the above example againinthebeginninggodcreatedtheheavenandtheearthThe above string is 44 letters in length. (If we use an entire book, like the Bible, this string would be thousands of characters long.)Let look at two extremes: One where the first character is in our 'hidden' word is at the start of the above string, and the other where the first character is almost at the end of the string.Let's assume we want to search for a hidden word of 5 letters.
If we started searching for the hidden word at the first letter in the string, we must be able to fit the remaining 4 letters of the word we are searching for into the rest of the string (43 characters) - else we will never find the word in this string. The maximum spacing between the letters is thus 43 divided by 4, which is about 11. (The left side of the following graph shows that a large spacing is possible when we start at the beginning of the string.)Example:I nthebegin N inggodcre A tedthehea V enandthee A rthThe offset (starting position) is 1, and the spacing is 10.If however we started at the 9 th-last letter, the maximum spacing would be 2 (the right side of the following graph, which has a small spacing).Example:inthebeginninggodcreatedtheheavenan D t H e E a R t HThe offset (starting position) is 36, and the spacing is 2.
If we had to draw a graph, it would look like this:The spacing on the left side would be 11 (44 divided by 4). On the right side it would be 2. The search word will only be found inside this triangle. The later our starting position in the string, the smaller the spacing that is possible.The longer the word we are searching for, the smaller the area inside this triangle will become. (The top left side of the triangle depends on the length of the search word.) The following graph shows that the area, and thus the chances of finding your 'hidden word, becomes smaller quite quickly. Most 'Bible Codes' are therefore short words - which is logical, and what you would expect.The longer the search word, the less chance we have of finding the word. This means you do not find the phrase 'williammarrionbranham' (William Marrion Branham) in the 'Bible Codes'.
The search phrase is very long, and thusthe chances of finding it are very small. (We did search for it, and did not find it.)Commercial programsSearching for these 'hidden codes' manually (by hand) will take very long. We need computer programs to help us with these searches.There are commercial programs available that allow you to search the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Some allow youto search the English Bible. Some programs are 'freeware'.Most of these programs have some limitations however. They do not allow you to examine any book of your choice. They may be limited to the English Bible, or the Hebrew Old Testament.
We wanted to search any book of our choice. They do not allow you to examine any language of your choice. We wanted to search in Hebrew, Greek, English, Afrikaans, and Dutch. They do not allow you to search random letter strings (mixed-up letter combinations). They are slow.
They do not provide the source code, so you have no way of knowing if they are reliable. They do not all allow searching for the word 'backwards', effectively limiting your search by half. They do not provide the statistics you need to properly analyze this 'phenomenon'. They have a 'cut-off' point.
The typical spacing is not allowed to be more than 2000 letters.By limiting the spacing to 2000 letters, the commercial programs ignore the top 99% of the triangle area! They cut out the majority of the finds!
In our research, we have found that they typically ignore 99.3% of the results, e.g. In the English Bible.The question is: How can you make good conclusions if you ignore 99% of the facts? In fact, how can you make any conclusion?Needless to say, we wrote our own program.
(We compared the results of our program with the available programs,when limited to a spacing of 2000 characters, to ensure that the results were accurate.)The resultsIn the following few graphs, we will show some of the search results done with the English Bible (King James Version). After the spaces and punctuation were removed, the string was 3 227 544 letters in length.Searching for the word 'branham', we found this word 655 times (forward search) and 612 times (backward search). As we were looking for 'hidden codes', the minimum allowed spacing was 2. (A spacing of 1 means that the words are not 'hidden', but written in the text.)We then used a scatter-graph to plot the results (start position/offset vs. Spacing/distance between the letters).Forward search - found 655 timesBackward search - found 612 timesYou can see the triangle shape as discussed previously.
All the results lie inside this triangle. The size of thetriangle is exactly as expected.Note the following:. The 'dots' are fairly 'evenly' distributed throughout the area. This would seem to indicate that this is a natural statistical phenomenon. The density of the 'dots' are roughly about the same in both cases (which is expected because we expect the word to be found almost as much 'forward' as 'backwards'). The x-axis (horizontal) is 3 227 544 long (which is the length of the KJV Bible without spaces and punctuation).
This is as expected. The y-axis (vertical) is 3 227 544 divided by 7 (length of the word 'branham'). This is also as expected.Now compare these graphs with the one for the word 'statist' (also 7 letters in length). This word was part of research intothe variations of the word 'statisticalanalysis' ('statistical analysis'). We started with 's', then 'st', then 'sta', then 'stat', and so on. We used the phrase 'statist' here because it also has 7 letters (like 'branham'), for comparison.Forward search - found 11947 timesWe see that the density (how close together) of the 'dots' is higher. The word was found almost 19 times more often.The question is why?Density of the 'dots'Let us do some statistical analysis on the letters used in the text of the King James Bible.
We will count the number of times each letter occurs in the Bible.Here are the results.LetterOccurrencesPercentageA27518979070.27K2212148.80U83060.04Y58270.09Total.00The results are obvious. The letter 'e' occurs more than any other letter (12.72%). The chances of you finding a letter 'e' in the KJV is 431 better than finding the letter 'q' (0.03%). Depending on the letters in the 'hidden' word you are searching for, you will find the density of the 'dots' changing.Now let us have a look again at our search words.
The word 'branham' consists of letters that are found less often than the letters of the word 'statist'. When we calculate the difference, we find that we are more likely to find the word 'statist' than the word 'branham' by about 19 times. Does this correlate with the findings? We found it was more than 18 times more. This explains why the scatter-graph was denser with the word 'statist' than with the word 'branham'.
It is purely statistical. The even distribution of the 'dots' also shows that this is a statistical phenomenon.Formulas and realityWith our research, we also developed formulas that we can use to calculate (statistically) how many times a specific word should occur in the string. We then used these formulas to predict certain words' occurrences.
We then ran our program to check if the predicted results were true. In all cases we were accurate in our predictions within 3%.To predict the results for other languages and books, we simply check the number of times each letter occurs in the book. Then, using the updated table of statistics (like the table above), we apply the same formulas.
Each time we were accurate within 3%.(You can calculate this yourself by multiplying the percentage occurrences of each letter in a search word.)HebrewThe Hebrew language is far better suited to find 'hidden codes' than most languages, due to the characteristics of the language. This is probably why most programs only work with the Hebrew. It consists of fewer letters in the alphabet. Names are normally shorter, e.g.
You can write 'Shakespeare' as 'shkspr' (eliminating the vowels), which is 6 characters instead of 11. This means that the probability of finding names increases dramatically. You can write dates in Hebrew using letters, e.g. A=1, B=2, etc. This makes Hebrew ideal for attaching dates to certain events.
Again these search patterns are very short, and you can find quite a few of them. Many words have multiple meanings, so one can find codes and associations much easier.ConclusionThe 'Bible Codes' (up to this point) is purely a natural statistical phenomenon that will be also be found for different books, languages and random letters. You will find the same thing whether you look at the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, or 'War and Peace'. You will find it whether you work with Hebrew and Greek, or with English. The number of times the 'hidden' word occurs can be predicted by statistical formulas to within 3% accuracy.
With this study we have thus not found any 'hidden codes' in the Bible (or any other literature).Some researchers say that the 'unique combination of codes' or 'proximity' in the Bible is the REAL proof of the codes. But this again proved to be a purely natural statistical phenomenonPlease note that the above conclusion was reached by looking objectively at facts. It does not make us 'unbelievers' (in JesusChrist and the Bible) just because the facts are not what you personally wanted to hear. You still need to get saved by faith in Jesus Christ. And faith comes by hearing the Word of God.' It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.' - 1 Cor 1:21Many times we want to find the 'hidden' secrets of the Bible, and choose to ignore the obvious simple facts that are plainlystated in the written text of the Bible.
Start doing the ABC's first, before trying to do 'algebra'. Which in this case is 'fake'!