The Collinear Pattern
The collinear pattern is being studied by Nachum Bombach and results
are highly significant, showing a high number of collinear ELS's very close
to relevant verses in the underlying text.
Mr. Bombach began by extracting all consecutive two-word phrases from the
Torah, where each of the two words are 5 letters long.
He then searched each of these phrases as one long ELS, which
in most tables would appear in a column. However, one of these appears
horizontally because it has an unheard-of small skip of -3, as
shown below in red - for 10 letters, this is phenomenal.
The phrase in red means "does not part the hoof". This phrase
comes from the Torah's description of
three animals (Leviticus 11:4-6) that are
non-kosher because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof: the camel,
the rock badger, and the hare. The hare appears in green, twice, in parallel
formation. The camel appears in brown, parallel to the hare.
The rock badger appears in yellow in the midst of the original ELS for
the phrase. The blue letters when combined with the red, actually
fill out the full expression "does not part the hoof" as it is stated
in Leviticus 11:4.
click for full image
To have the long expression alone is
extraordinary. To have these related terms is tremendous
reinforcement that this is yet another intentional encoding,
though
these bonus words are not included in the statistics.
Less "visible", but as exciting as this picture, are the accumulated results
of measuring all of the phrases' proximity to related verses.
Back One Level
Back to Home Page