One major study
and paper that has been done, was put out by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips
and Yoav Rosenberg and is entitled 'Equidistant Letter Sequences in the
Book of Genesis'. We obtained a copy from the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics, Volume 9, Number 3, August 1994. It is extremely scientific
and mathematical and technical in nature.(would
take a math professor from MIT to figure it out).
Evidently, calculations have been done on this that substantially prove
minute probability or chance that ELS is simply coincidence.
The two books currently on
the market, fueling the excitement and debate among the general populace,
are the books by Grant R. Jeffrey,
The Signature of God, and YESHUA,
by Yacov Rambsel---upon which much of Jeffrey's book is based.
ELS Software Available
The programmer who put together
the research for software for theomatics, also developed a program to do
the ELS research. We have never really used the program, but will make
it available to those may be interested in it. It is a DOS prompt Borland
Turbo C program, that takes the straight line Hebrew text and finds Equi-Distant
Words. A person enters into the program the location or (1) starting point
of the search and (2) the sequence desired. The program then searches and
(3) prints out the results with various formatting options.
The program is available
from us at Theomatics Research for a small charge.(theomatics.com/)
There is also a program available
from Torah Gematrias that will look for the patterns, but only in
the Torah.(first
five books of O.T.). It is available
from jewishsoftware.com. When there search for it.
Letter From and to a Doctor
To conclude here, we would
like to quote portions of some email exchange, with a medical doctor, Dr.
Frank Krautter, who wrote to us asking us about our assessment of ELS?
It will provide a somewhat subjective and fascinating analysis.
Dear Del:
I find the 'Hitler' and
'Mussolini' thing to be pretty incredulous. It almost makes me think that
the patterns are random and that if you search long enough you can find
anything, which discredits the whole approach. I would bet a lot of people
look at that sort of finding and say 'lunacy' and close their minds like
a clam snapping shut. I have to trust others on the stats and the statements
that these patterns are not in non biblical sources.(that
is, that they are not in regular books).
To prove that, you would have to spend a huge effort looking. I thought
the link would be in that the intervals were key numbers. For a few of
Rambsel's intervals that is the case. You don't have a index by key theomatic
values and I scanned a good part of your book looking for links between
his work and yours and was not too successful. If being a doctor didn't
take up so much time, I could get into this a lot better. Frank
Dear Dr. Krautter:
The fact everyone must realize,
is that everybody out there is looking for future events, the holocaust,
etc. determined to find those things. Can they be equally found by mixing
up the words randomly? That is the type of testing that theomatic has done
and must continue to do. It is the only credible way. This is all very
fascinating, isn't it?
Del
Dear Del:
Yes it is incredibly fascinating.
I have talked it up a bunch, Most people say, interesting, but it is above
their heads. They are unwilling to stop and think about it. Then a group.(says
that they).understand
it clearly and are content to just sit with the information I give them.
Most people are very very lazy thinkers and at best are capable of only
parroting back what others have said to them, but they are still dear sweet
souls that I enjoy, even though it is disappointing; maybe the same frustration
devotees of the opera have with me. Frank
Hi Frank!
I was glad to read the things
you said. The one thing that disturbs me the most about ELS, is the fact
that the findings consist of what I like to call "little spurts phenomena".
Unlike theomatics, it does not involve testing procedures on a large population
of non arbitrarily
selected examples.(identified
in advance of performing any tests).
Hebrew words generally have very few letters in them. It takes perhaps
only three to six letters to come up with any Hebrew word, that may require
perhaps twice as many letters to translate into English.(Hebrew
has no vowels
but only consonants).
Trying
to compose Hebrew words to match modern English words, such as HOLOCAUST,
HITLER, GESTAPO, etc. may be very easy to do, because with just consonants,
any vowel.(a,e,i,o,u).can
be arbitrarily interposed. Also, how many possible different ways are there
to spell 'Hitler' in Hebrew?
