Saturday, May 14, 2011

What led me to the most esoteric analysis of language?

“what led you to the most esoteric analysis of language.  do you know?” - James Johnson

I do know. In short, in 2000, after a friend of mine directed me toward Jeffrey Satinover M.D.’s work, Cracking the Bible Code (New York: Quill, William Morrow, © 1997), a work watered down for public consumption by Michael Drosnin who, along with the work, went on to fame via the Oprah Winfrey Show as he was a featured guest in her Book Club, I was galvanized to go to a local presentation of the Bible Codes and what caught my attention was not so much the coded information they were claiming to uncover via a skip code, but that they were reading English directly on top of Hebrew letters, that the phonetic values of the Hebrew letters were retained for reading English. Now, I was taught that the Greeks created the first alphabet and that it was this alphabet which became the foundation for the Latin script used in later English but this is only part of the truth. Open Pandora ’s Box:

Sunday, May 8, 2011