Do the Bible Codes Prove the Documentary Hypothesis?

See Christopher Rollston, “Who Wrote the Torah According to the Torah?” TheTorah (2017). Now, you may ask, what if a later forger wrote the Torah and wanted to pretend that Moses wrote the Torah? The answer is that he would also have signed Moses’ name on the cover, as certainly happened with other books in the past. See Hindy Najman “The Ancient Practice of Attributing Texts and Ideas to Moses,” TheTorah (2016).

See discussion in Samuel Lebens, “Modern Faith in Sinai,” TheTorah (2016).

This is actually one of the unique features of Judaism, since no other religion claims its foundational text was written by so many people… Well Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shintoism, and Confucianism do, but it does differentiate us from Mormonism, Islam, and Scientology, so there is that.

Daniel Jackson, “Torah min haShamayim: Conflicts Between Religious Belief and Scientific Thinking” TheTorah (2013).

I myself have often looked to hidden messages in the Torah to guide decisions in my life, such as what to have for breakfast.

These codes are all real, found using the same methodology as the widely publicized Torah codes. The text of the Torah and the individual sources are from http://tanach.us.

Well, actually only part of Deuteronomy is D, the end of that book is from various sources, but who’s counting?

B. Talmud, Eruvin, 65a.

Calculated might be an exaggeration. Let’s say, made up.

I looked for this code at the request of the editors, not expecting to find anything. The name Zev Farber is found exactly once in P, with a skip of 4023, and once in the Masoretic text, with a skip of 22206. It seems that the redactor’s additions interrupted the existence of the code in P, so the redactor made sure that the additions would still maintain this prediction, so it could be found by future generations. For YCT’s connection to TheTorah.com, see “Open Orthodoxy to Sue Gateshead Yeshiva” TheTorah (2020).