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Joe Myers (boo...@primenet.com) wrote:

: I've heard discussions about the Biblical code on Christian radio
: programs . . . .they all claim that no other piece of literature
: reveals the kind of information of the code of the Torrah.  They
: ignore all the supposed correlations found in Shakespeare, the
: Gettysburg Address, and (for all I know) this post.


There are a number of books that claim there are codes in the Dead Sea
Scrolls, but they are not the sort of codes you are writing about. The
authors claim that there is a large amount of *jargon* in the dead sea
scrolls, so that when read by the uninitiated they seem to mean one thing,
but a different meaning is revealed to the initiates. Thus it is claimed
that references to 'Galilee','Jerusalem', etc do not relate to the actual
places of those names, but rather to specific locations in the Essene's
settlement, so when the scrolls say 'Jesus went down to Galilee' they
really mean 'Jesus walked to the left hand corner of the compound, next to
the karzi'. I believe this way of interpreting the scrolls is called
'Peshers' but I've lost significant quantities of brain cells lately so
might be wrong. However, both the books I have read claim that the
existence of this jargon encryption system is well known to scholars of
early Jewish religious literature. 
-- 
Chris 'fufas' Grace   Somewhere south of the equator and north of antarctica