Re: The Bible Code -- Two, three, and four-consonant words.

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From: JoAnne Schmitz
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00

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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 07:07:19 GMT, yrab...@midway.uchicago.edu (Eugene
Rabinovich) wrote:

>Libertarius (att...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>
>:     How do youknow that the supposed "code" refers to RABIN and not
>:     RUBEN or something else? How do you no that "AMIR" is not MIRA
>:     or MARY or EMIR or AMORY or something else?
>
>I am not defending Drosnin's book, but consonants are routinely used in
>Hebrew to portray vowels. For example, Rabin is spelled
>"resh-bet-yud-nun," while Ruben would be spelled "resh-vav-bet-nun." Also,
>Amir would definitely be spelled differently than Mira or Mary or Amory,
>but could be spelled the same as Emir.

Would someone kindly explain what aleph is?  I thought it was a Hebrew
letter which is the equivalent of "A."

JoAnne "frankly confused" Schmitz

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Subject: Re: The Bible Code -- Two, three, and four-consonant words.
Date: 1997/06/16
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