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Bible Codes in Peshitta
#56
February 17, 2008

DISREGARD ANY ARGUMENT BASED ON So-Called ???BIBLE CODES???.

The true study of the Peshitta text is not a mathematical or scrabble-like game.

As I reported in a submission to the old forum (that got zapped), Dave Bauscher???s Bible Code ???studies??? and the ???Divine Contact??? theory are completely meaningless.

There is really NOTHING miraculous about Dave???s 95 ???divine names??? study. What he did (and I reproduced) was a simple statistical analysis of the variance of observed short words or groups of Aramaic characters (which he called ???divine names??? ) in an exhaustive sorting and manipulation of equally spaced Aramaic alphabetical characters using a complex computer program and a high-speed computer. All he found in his study of 95 short words (???divine names???) is that the millions of observations that he made with his Peshitto text were MORE VARIED THAN EXPECTED FOR AN IDEAL THEORETICAL DISTRIBUTION of letters. The ideal distribution upon which he based his analysis assumes that the separate letters of the alphabet were perfectly randomly distributed in the text. Of course, they are not. Skipping between letters does not create randomness out of orderliness because the underlying words do not have random letter patterns.

In Dave Bauscher???s study about half of the ???divine names??? were more prevalent than expected and about half were less prevalent. Nothing surprising about these results. However, as I explained their variance about the expected mean values were sometimes much larger than predicted from the ideal theory for random letters. A few were much more frequent and a few were much less freqeuent than the theoretical average. Dave Bauscher reasoned that the larger variance than expected was a Godly miracle. The hypothesis that he framed was that God intentionally put some names in much more frequently than expected and intentionally put some names in much less frequently thah expected. The natural increase in variance caused by the non-random organization of letters in the text he interpreted as a divine contact. All I found looking at his data was a typical Gaussian distribution of observations having a larger than ideal variance.

Alas, all Dave observed was a typical Gaussian (the so-called ???normal???) distribution of observations having a larger than ideal variance. About half of the ???divine names were somewhat more frequent than expected for an ideal sample from an ideal random distribution and about half were less frequent. Some were significantly more common and about an equal number were significantly less common than would be expected for samples from a group perfectly random alphabetical letters. That???s just what you would expect by pure chance since the letters in the text are not perfectly random. The somewhat larger variance is not miraculous, but the result of having a series of letters that are not randomly distributed because they are formed into words and groups of words using the Aramaic language. His ???control??? was a perfectly random distribution of letters, so it agreed with the expectation based on a random distribution of letters. He also wrote that his analysis of a Hebrew version ???War and Peace??? did not give a similar results. But with over 3.1 million characters ???War and Peace??? has almost ten times the characters to juggle and sift through than does the Peshitto, so it might be expected to yield closer to perfect randomness. Also, a translation from Russian would be expected to have other different word/letter structure properties. [But using the same foolish ???Bible code ??? methods, someone has claimed that there was a miraculous find of words related to the Candles of Chanukah, hidden in the first 78064 letters of the Hebrew translation of War and Peace, see <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/candles/">http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/candles/</a><!-- m --> Maybe Dave can find some divine names in that part of War and Peace.]

Previously Dave claimed that this natural phenomena proved that the specific version of the 1905, 1920 Peshitto with 461,094 letters was the perfect original text of the New Testament. I suggested to him that he would get basically the same result even if he removed a chapter from the text. Now I think he is reporting that he got the same basic result with every version of the Peshitto/Peshitta that he tried. Obviously, the so-called ???divine names??? study does not provide any ???Bible Codes???. So, the text with 461,094 letters is not necessarily special.

The so called ???long codes??? are constructed as in a game of ???scrabble???. Dave used the Codefinder long string of letters to search for so-called ???long codes???, a series of letters that created a phrase. Using a seed word or phrase, such as Jesus Messiah, he searched the long string of letters generated by the Codefinder for a phrase that made sense. He found some! Since he did not search for or expect these particular ???long codes???, finding a readable series of letters among the millions of letters dealt by the Codefinder has no statistical significance at all. It is like seeing the perfect image of the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich. It???s a interesting finding, but not statistically unlikely since that is what was found by chance. Finding something you are not expecting has a probability of 100%! He could search any version of the Peshitto/Peshitta and find some other ???long codes???, but what a waste of time and talent.

The true study of the Peshitta text is not a mathematical or scrabble-like game.

DISREGARD ANY ARGUMENT BASED ON So-Called ???BIBLE CODES???.

Sincerely,

Otto
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Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 11-25-2003, 05:24 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-25-2003, 07:24 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 11-26-2003, 12:43 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-26-2003, 02:05 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by Vsanzcm - 11-26-2003, 03:53 AM
[No subject] - by Rob Vanhoff - 11-26-2003, 09:02 AM
. - by drmlanc - 11-26-2003, 10:47 AM
. - by drmlanc - 11-26-2003, 10:48 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by Craig - 11-26-2003, 11:52 AM
Bible Codes - by gbausc - 11-26-2003, 09:26 PM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-26-2003, 10:00 PM
. - by drmlanc - 11-27-2003, 07:02 AM
What good are codes ? - by gbausc - 11-27-2003, 02:58 PM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-27-2003, 03:43 PM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-27-2003, 04:04 PM
. - by drmlanc - 11-28-2003, 12:44 AM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-28-2003, 02:33 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-28-2003, 04:10 AM
Re: Bible Codes - by Vsanzcm - 11-28-2003, 05:07 AM
Re: Bible Codes - by Paul Younan - 11-28-2003, 05:23 AM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-28-2003, 08:30 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-28-2003, 04:49 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 11-28-2003, 06:26 PM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-29-2003, 01:40 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by The Thadman - 11-29-2003, 06:29 AM
. - by drmlanc - 11-29-2003, 11:55 AM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 11-29-2003, 03:42 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 11-29-2003, 04:37 PM
[No subject] - by Dave - 11-29-2003, 04:42 PM
bible codes - by Guest - 11-30-2003, 04:58 AM
Re: bible codes - by Guest - 11-30-2003, 05:01 AM
[No subject] - by Vsanzcm - 11-30-2003, 09:28 PM
Re: bible codes - by Vsanzcm - 11-30-2003, 09:32 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 12-01-2003, 02:29 PM
. - by drmlanc - 12-01-2003, 11:43 PM
[No subject] - by Ivan Pavlovich Ostapyuk - 08-25-2004, 01:59 AM
What God Coded - by se7en - 09-28-2004, 04:12 AM
Re: What God Coded - by gbausc - 09-30-2004, 12:13 PM
Re: What God Coded - by nashama - 12-06-2004, 04:15 PM
Re: What God Coded - by nashama - 12-06-2004, 04:17 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 12-08-2004, 11:57 AM
No Codes in the Peshitta - by nashama - 12-09-2004, 06:36 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 12-11-2004, 09:57 PM
Assumptions - by nashama - 12-11-2004, 11:12 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 12-12-2004, 02:02 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 12-13-2004, 02:57 PM
bible codes - by Yohanan Shaul - 04-03-2005, 02:11 PM
[No subject] - by gbausc - 04-09-2005, 04:00 PM
bible codes - by Yohanan Shaul - 04-16-2005, 03:48 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 12-11-2007, 05:15 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by enarxe - 02-16-2008, 08:38 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-16-2008, 11:48 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by enarxe - 02-17-2008, 04:16 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-17-2008, 06:42 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by ograabe - 02-18-2008, 12:01 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-18-2008, 03:57 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by ograabe - 02-18-2008, 06:47 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by Thirdwoe - 02-19-2008, 02:27 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-19-2008, 08:04 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by enarxe - 02-22-2008, 04:31 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by ograabe - 02-27-2008, 12:46 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-29-2008, 06:23 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-29-2008, 07:12 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by enarxe - 02-29-2008, 08:34 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 02-29-2008, 09:26 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by enarxe - 03-01-2008, 12:09 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 03-16-2008, 03:53 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by enarxe - 03-17-2008, 01:34 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by Thirdwoe - 03-17-2008, 04:57 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 03-17-2008, 08:22 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by ograabe - 03-17-2008, 08:45 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 03-17-2008, 09:51 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 03-18-2008, 09:16 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 03-19-2008, 08:44 PM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by Thirdwoe - 03-20-2008, 06:05 AM
Re: Bible Codes in Peshitta - by gbausc - 03-20-2008, 04:59 PM

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