....For this third of three pages I, as a medical doctor with scientific training and twenty plus years of Emergency Room practice will give the opponents of ELS codes in the Torah a chance to say their piece. ...To be sure they all agree that such 'hidden messages' can be found, but they are there by coincidence and pure chance occurance, and not because G-d or anyone else put them there for the purpose of making prophecies or recounting history BEFORE or AFTER the events have happened. ..I don't happen to agree with this opinion, but let's hear these critics out. ..That will give me and you at least a chance to 'refine' our claims and defend our conclusions.

.".This is a generally quite critical magazine that gives Archaeologists and critical Bible scholars a platform on which to state their opinions to a large and well-read audience throughout the English-speaking world. ..One would expect to find in this magazine a well thought out rebuttal to those, such as Michael Drosnin and Dr. Katz, who were capitalizing on the enthusiasm of people now using Bible Codes software to find numerous codes, some of them seeming to support all sorts of new prophecies and predictions, in effect re-writing the Bible to their own specifications. ..And indeed Bible Review did publish such a rebuttal.

.....In this rebuttal, several authors reviewed the relatively recent research by the scholars since the 19th century showing that the Torah especially was quite likely written by several writers, not just "Moses" -- writers that scholars have labeled for want of their real names, "J" for "Jahwist", "E" for "Elohist", "P" for "Priestly", and "R" for "Redactor".

...If, indeed, Moses is not the only one to which the Torah was "dictated", then, of course -- the scenero presented in "Computorah" by Dr. Moshe Katz cannot be supported, and G-d did not dictate the entire Torah to "Moses" as one long cipher with no gaps, spaces, and punctuation -- the state to which the entire Jewish Old Testament Scriptures must be reduced for the computer to find these ELS codes.

... The authors of this "Bible Review" article also remind us that there was no Hebrew language as we know it today, in the supposed time that Moses was at Mount Sinai, and that there were several versions of the Hebrew Bible available right up until Gutenburg's printing press made it practical to make up a compromise version that after that date was uniform in wording. ..Before that, of course, there were enough variations between various texts to make a code that depends on exact sequences of letters impractical if not impossible.

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