There are a large number of sites on the web of varying quality devoted to the debate over the Code. Following are some of the more interesting pieces. Most contain additional links.
Please Note: The genuine Code phenomenon is complex and subtle. Some of the following articles other than those by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, Art Levitt, Nachum Bombach and Harold Gans contain simplifications or errors. They are of significant historical interest, however, and shed light on both the early development of the phenomenon and aspects of the current debate. A special caution: many criticisms of the Code are aimed inadvertently at such simplifications or errors, not the actual phenomenon. Readers will find most of these complications clarified in non-technical language in Cracking the Bible Code.

Articles Describing the Phenomenon for a General Readership

• Benjamin Wittes, "Cracking God's Code." An article about the growing controversy published in Slate, the on-line magazine edited by Michael Kinsley, former editor of the New Republic and long time combatant on CNN's Crossfire.

The Phenomenon in the Words of the Original Discoverers

Doron Witztum, preeminent Code researcher

• Daniel Michaelson. "Reading the Torah in Equal Intervals," one of the earliest papers describing the phenomenon. Though the methodology has since been superseded, this piece is of considerable historical interest. Michaelson, the son of Holocaust survivors, escaped from the Soviet Union in the early 19070's. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics at U.C.L.A. where he was a faculty member until the late 1980's. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. By his own account, the codes were instrumental in his return to Judaism.

• Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg, "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis."
  The article that created the international controversy; the only one to date published in a refereed scientific journal, Statistical Science. Technical.
  May be obtained by contacting the publication directly (Statistical Science [ISSN 0883-4237], Volume 9, Number 3, August 1994
  
  Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 3401 Investment Boulevard #7, Hayward, California 94545.

• Harold Gans, "Bible Codes." A description of what they are and aren't, for the general reader. Non-technical.

• Art Levitt, "Primer and Survey of the Latest Research." Welcome to the Torah Codes (aka Bible Codes): Primer and Survey of the Latest Research . Non-technical with links to technical material also.

• Professor Eliyahu Rips, Many other significant and recent finds (in Hebrew)

• Professor Eliyahu Rips' site, in English

• Doron Witztum's site with detailed research results that answer the critics' arguments (choice of Hebrew or English)

• Nachum Bombach's site, in Hebrew

• Aish HaTorah's site thorough and reliable information, including Harold Gans' primer for the layman (in English)

• Original Research-oriented computer programs developed by Yoav Rosenberg. Technical.

What the Code Phenomenon is Not: Responses to the Recent Best-Seller, The Bible Code, by Michael Drosnin

Eliyahu Rips, Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• "Public Statement by Eliyahu Rips," Professor of Mathematics at the Einstein Institute of the Hebrew University. The Bible Code cites Professor Rips extensively and attributes most of its ideas to him. This is his reaction.

• "Public Statement by Harold Gans," for twenty-eight years a Cryptologic Mathematician at the NSA and Meritorious Civilian Service Award recipient. Gans is also cited in The Bible Code, this is his response to its claims.

• "Public Statement by Doron Witztum," the preeminent Code researcher and developer of the most advanced methods for its investigation, comments on The Bible Code.

Scientific Critiques of the Genuine Code Phenomenon

Brendan McKay, Ph.D. Reader in the Department of Computer Science at Australia National University. The most active critic of the phenomenon.

• Dror Bar-Natan, Alec Gindis, Aryeh Levitan and Brendan McKay, "Report on New ELS Tests of the Torah." As yet unpublished preliminary version of a critique of the genuine research. An extended version of this paper is apparently pending submission to a refereed journal. Technical site contains a growing number of further critiques and rejoinders, some technical, some for a general readership.

• Dror Bar-Natan, Brendan McKay, "Equidistant Letter Sequences in War and Peace." A different kind of critique of the genuine research, claiming that since comparable codes seemingly may be found in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, the phenomenon is trivial. Technical

• Barry Simon. "A Skeptical Look at the Torah Codes." Prof. Simon is Executive Officer (Chairman) of the Department of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Non-technical, approving assessment of critics' arguments.

• Mark Perakh. An emeritus professor of physics offers his criticism of the codes.

Responses and Other Sites of Interest

• Boris Tsirelson--Impossible Facts: Professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University explores, with a light touch, similarities between the genuine Code phenomenon and modern quantum mechanics--and people's dramatic, polarized, responses to each. Non-technical. Includes links to more technical analyses as well .

• Doron Witztum, "Did They Really Find Codes in War and Peace?" Doron Witztum's non-technical rejoinder to Bar-Natan and McKay [PDF file]. An online version, somewhat less complete may be found here.

• Alex Rotenberg, an associate of Eliyahu Rips, reports on a new experiment involving the holiday of Purim and the ten sons of Haman. Related material is discussed in Cracking the Bible Code, in chapter nine, "The Architecture of the Garden," and in chapter eleven, "The Flames of Amalek."

Robert Haralick, Ph.D. Boeing Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington; developer of the General Image Processing System for UNIX. Organizing a scientific conference on the Codes under the auspices of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, of which he is a Fellow.

Images courtesy of Jerusalem Report (Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips), Brendan McKay, Robert Haralick

Math Links (Probability and Statistics

• http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

  (an online introductory textbook) Maybe you're looking for a more detailed or more in-depth presentation of some of the ideas in probability and statistics presented in the Bible Codes Search program. Try one of these links to find an answer.

• http://forum.swarthmore.edu/probstat/probstat.html

  (online resources to probability and statistical educational material for all grade levels) Here are some fun lessons for adults and kids also.

• Seeing Statistics

  (a statistics textbook written with Java visual demos. Try it online.

• Introduction to Probability

  Charles M. Grinstead Swarthmore College, J. Laurie Snell Dartmouth College - A college level course available online as PDF files. Develop strong foundations from an easy to read textbook. Free!

• http://www.statone.com

  (statistics and probability resources (some free)) A more comprehensive resource, but you need to invest more into it to get more out of it.

Hebrew Language and Letters

• http://www.FoundationStone.com.au

  FoundationStone is a FREE application and support materials designed to allow the most efficient learning of its Hebrew vocabulary. The "Online Hebrew Tutorial" is included as part of the download - a complete, condensed set of language lessons to learn Hebrew. Foundation Stone Hebrew tutorial is also included on the Bible Search CD. We recommend it!

• http://www.Chabad.org

  You can find here a Hebrew alphabet tutorial, along with an introduction to many Jewish thoughts and customs.

• http://bible.ORT.org

  Learn to read and sing the Bible. This excellent site gives an audio-visual introduction to the Five Books of the Torah and selected reading from the Prophets. Complete in Hebrew with audio, transliteration, and translation, the Torah is accompanied by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's o.b.m. highly acclaimed commentary, The Living Torah. Choose English, Spanish or Russian versions of this classic. World ORT Union (WOU) is one of the largest nongovernmental education and training organisations in the world. A nonprofit, nonpolitical organisation, ORT's objective is to meet the educational and vocational requirements of diverse students throughout the world. Currently WOU operates in more than 50 countries and trains more than 280,000 students annually.

• http://www.inner.org/hebleter/hebletrs.htm

  The Mystical Significance of the Hebrew Letters with a visual and audio introduction to each letter. A site well worth a visit.

More Bible lecture sites

• http://www.Shiur.net

  You can find here a collection of online Real Audio and MP3 shiurim on many subjects from the Rabbis of Yeshiva University.

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