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Helge Moulding  <h...@slc.unisys.com> wrote in alt.folklore.urban:

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>Now wait a second. The article at 
>http://www.cybermail.net/~codes/genesis.htm says that
>
>"2. Names and designations taken from the Pentateuch are spelled as 
>in the original."
>
>I took that to mean that the names are from the Pentateuch. Not from
>some later time. Does anyone have the actual list?

The article you mention above has a link to the list that was used.
Basically, they selected people from a biographical dictionary.
Further details of the selection process are described in the article.
The dictionary they used lists Jewish personalities from the 9th to the
18th century, so they are all much later than the time the Torah was
written.  In that light, the reference to "names and designations taken
from the Pentateuch" doesn't make much sense.

My general impression of the article is they have done all they could
to make it scientifically sound (which doesn't mean it is, I don't know).  
Occasionally the measures taken verge on kookiness, for example when 
they ask "three prominent scientists" for binary numbers to seed their 
random generator with.

Btw, the article isn't quite complete.  An illustration mentioned in 
the text is missing, and more importantly, appendices A1 and A2, which
describe crucial parts of the procedure aren't there.

Anno "appendectomy" Siegel