Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 26, 2004
Bible codes, also known as Torah codes, are meaningful words and phrases that some people believe exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible, while others contend that they can be found in any long text (including Moby Dick). The primary method used to find such words is the Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS). To extract an ELS from a text, choose a starting point (any letter) and a skip (a number, possibly negative). The 13th century Spanish rabbi Bachya ben Asher was the first to describe an ELS in the Bible. (more...)
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