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Title: Bible Code II: The Countdown by Michael Drosnin ISBN: 0670032107 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 02 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.51
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting read for all
Comment: Whether you believe it or not, there is clearly something in this book. Not all want to believe that such things could be true but in fact they are. I am not saying Drosnin is right however, I believe it to be true. God is a mystery. And this Author doesn't believe in God. That was strange I thought that at person who is secular would write such a book. I, like Arafat, believe in prophecy. The only thing I can say is let's wait and see. We can't change destiny. Again, I say form your own opinion, but don't discount it, because with God, all things are possible.
Rating: 1
Summary: Once more a bestselling nonsense
Comment: The new book by Drosnin is what could be expected if you knew his previous despicable output. I was especially amused by the appendix to Drosnin's new opus wherein he painted a picture which is blatantly untrue, being a fantastic concoction about noble and highly qualified code defenders fighting against a few malicious attackers of low intelligence who, in Drosnin's learned opinion, either do not understand the codes (while he does) or intentionally try to discredit a high quality research allegedly proving the reality of the code. In fact the opposite is true. Contrary to Drosnin's assertion, the overwhelming majority of experts in mathematical statistics decisively rejected the claims by the code proponents. As to Drosnin's own contribution to the code lore, even professor Rips himself, to whom Drosnin refers with admiration and who (actually together with Witztum, whose name Drosnin does not seem to deem worth mentioning) is the originator of the code affair, has expressed his disapproval of Drosnin's atempts to predict the future by means of the alleged code sequences. In an interview to Newsweek a few years ago Drosnin claimed that he would admit his error if somebody found the "prediction" of a prime minister assasination "encoded" in a non-biblical text. A number of such "codes" was demonstrated. McKay found a whole bunch of them in Moby Dick. I found a set of "codes" spelling "Amir Will Kill Prime MInister Hero Rabin" in a Hebrew book by an Israeli writer Dahn Ben Amotz, published in 1979, this "code" being much better than Drosnin's acclaimed "prediction" of Rabin's assassination in the Bible. Drosnin never aknowledged this finding although it has been widely known and invoked multiple responses. That much about Drosnin's integrity. Especially obnoxious is Drosnin's one-sided story about the behavior of the Statistical Science journal. Drosnin omits in his story the threat of litigation against that journal made by Rips' attorneys, something unheard of in the history of scientific disputes. Overall, his new book is a piece of arrogant nonsense which of course will find thousands of gullible readers on whose ignorance and eagerness to believe in miracles journalist of Drosnin's type can always rely so he can laugh all the way to the bank.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pathetically na¿ve and childish
Comment: I must preface my comments by stating that I have not read Drosnin's first book. I bought his second book after hearing a cocktail conversation about it that quickly became polarized.
1. My fist observation is that his second book does not explain at all the significance of finding specific words or sentences in close proximity within sections of the Torah. Why is this relevant? Why would anyone believe that such appearances compose a code? It would appear therefore that this book cannot be read independently from Drosnin's first.
2. Drosnin repeateldy claims that he is not religious and nothing but a reporter -- someone who is looking for the hard facts, despite the fact that he acknowledges not being versed in the mathematics of code breaking. Well, for someone who claims to be taking an objective tack, it is disconcerting that he has not taken a more objective and scientific approach and sought alternative explanations for the fantastic findings presented in his book. Has he explored whether the 'code-cracking' method underlying the book can lead to spurrious findings, in the sense that it find similar or contradictory findings in other famous books?
3. For someone who was a Washington Post and a Wall Street Journal reporter, by seeking to personally meet with Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush to warn them of the dire prospects 'prophesized' by his code, he betrays an incredible naivet of how governments and important leaders work. One only wishes that the world situation was so calm and peaceful that these leaders would have the time to spend with people like Drosnin.
4. Last, the book does not offer any solution for the doomsday he is trying to warn us against. Even kids are aware that the situation in the Middle East is so dangerous that it may lead to the complete annihilation of that region. To avoid that horrible scenario peace, the Israelies and Palestinians and the entire world know that they need to reach peace. What his book does not deal with is that the major source of risk today in that area of the world is coming from religious Muslim and Jewish fundamentalists who do not fear death and who would likely welcome the Apocalypse prophesized by the Koran and Torah.
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Title: The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin ISBN: 0684849739 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Future Prospects of the World According to the Bible Code by Joseph Noah ISBN: 1892138077 Publisher: New Paradigm Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cracking the Bible Code by Jeffrey Satinover ISBN: 068815994X Publisher: William Morrow & Co Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Genesis Factor, The Amazing Mysteries of the Bible Codes by Yacov Rambsel ISBN: 1891668064 Publisher: Lions Head Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Who Wrote the Bible Code? : A Physicist Probes the Current Controversy by Randall Ingermanson ISBN: 1578562252 Publisher: Waterbrook Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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