Eliyahu Rips, one of the scientists who claimed to find a secret code in the Bible, died July 19 at the age of 75, The New York Times reported on Friday. Born on December 12, 1948, in Latvia to ...

In September 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received a mysterious and unsettling warning. The message claimed that his life was in danger — and that this danger had been foretold, hidden ...

His work provided the basis for the worldwide best seller “The Bible Code,” but he later rejected the book as unscientific. By Clay Risen It sounds like a headline ripped from a supermarket tabloid: ...

CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENtalists believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, written by human authors guided by the Holy Spirit. But Orthodox Jews go the fundamentalists one better. Many of these most ...

After Drosnin’s Bible Code circus, however, the problem came to the attention of the probability theorist Brendan McKay, who showed that any text would throw up similarly spooky juxtapositions. (In ...