Imagine that the future can be foretold. Not only that, but that it can be divined systematically via a pattern of words in the Bible. Imagine that the system seems to have been sketched out in a respectable academic journal. Don't forget the approaching millennium. Now imagine a lot of money.
Simon & Schuster has. Last Thursday the publisher took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to celebrate the debut of The Bible Code, a book by Michael Drosnin that, it claimed, would "completely change the way we view the world." The volume would unveil a code "broken"...
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