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Long before \”The Da Vinci Code\” dominated bestseller lists, a cluster of Jewish mathematicians were promoting \”The Bible Codes,\” the deeply mathematical interpretations of the five books of Moses which may, vaguely, predict some future events.

And yes conspiracy theorists, the government is involved — insofar as one of the code\’s four main proponents worked at the National Security Agency (NSA).

\”The evidence is all showing that these codes are real,\” said Harold Gans, who spent 28 years at the NSA as a senior cryptologic mathematician before retiring in 1996. \”The Torah could not be written by any being bound by the laws of nature.\”