Important Themes

In all of the following examples of important themes, found by Professor Rips, he followed a protocol that he started using almost from the beginning of his research in the late 1970's: first, identify a set of phrases associated with an important theme, such as the three themes reviewed here; second, find these in the text as ELS's; third, see if the ELS's - particularly those with near-minimal skip - are located near underlying verses that have a strong connection to the phrase. This third step can be subjective, and therefore it is difficult to pin down its significance for each individual case. However, we see in far more cases than statistically expected, definite links between the verses and the ELS's. Sometimes these are undeniable - for example the one and only ELS succeeds; or the related verse contains an exact match for one or both words in the phrase.

Below are a small sampling of interesting examples, from a series of three important themes. The themes are:

Nouns that include G-d's name

Famous couples in the Bible, and

The attributes of G-d, from daily Jewish prayers

If it were possible to quantify this category, it might be the most significant, because the overall success rate is extremely high.

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