![]() An ELS is a string of letters compiled by pulling letters out of a text at regular intervals. ![]() ![]() (One of the authors, Hebrew University professor Eliyahu Rips, is a well-respected mathematician.) The original paper sought to test the anecdotal observation that pairs of conceptually related words tend to appear in close proximity to one another in the Torah, coded in what are called equidistant letter sequences. The codes’ rebuttal has taken so long because the science behind the original paper is very sophisticated. For those of us who were freaked out by the codes, the new paper comes as a relief. In the current issue of Statistical Science, Australian mathematician Brendan McKay and three Israeli colleagues have convincingly debunked them, and the former editor of Statistical Science who published the original paper has endorsed their rebuttal.
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