BibleCodex is a free, religiously neutral tool that opens up Bible Codes searching to the public.

There is a growing online controversy about Bible Codes -- historically relevant messages allegedly encoded within the Old Testament. The debate is between biblical scholars who claim that the found messages are numerous and relevant beyond statistical expectation, and statisticians who claim there is nothing statistically relevant about them.

The ostensible messages themselves are usually Hebrew words or phrases encoded in constant-gap offsets, in the forward direction, somewhere within the text of the Old Testament (with all spaces, vowels, punctuation, and Hebrew ending-forms removed).

Several books have been written, and there is even a $50 software package that you can buy to search for your name in the Bible. Because the search tools are controlled by a few researchers, everyone else is dependent on their claims. There are even disagreements about basic facts, like which messages occur where. Also, you pretty much have to know Hebrew to participate.

BibleCodex aims to dispell the mystery of Bible Codes by letting anyone do their own searches, using a simple, free, open-source browser tool.

This is a placeholder for the blog I will eventually write on the topic. In the meantime, you may click here to check out the in-progress tools.

Copyright © Ervin Peretz 2005. All rights reserved.

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Ervin Peretz is a software engineer at a major web search company.
He is author of HoldemKiller, a free online poker bot.
He is author of BibleCodex, a free Bible Codes research tool.
He is founder of Terra Bite Lounge, a voluntary-payment cafe/restaurant chain.