Numerical Secrets of the Bible. Rediscovering the Bible Codes

About the Author Casper Labuschagne was born in Heilbron, South Africa in 1929. He studied Semitic languages and theology at the University of Pretoria and at the State University in Groningen, The Netherlands, from 1947 to 1956. He holds an M.A. in Semitic languages and a Doctor of Divinity from the University of Pretoria. He was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa in 1957 and 1958. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria and from 1967 to his retirement in 1991, was lecturer and later professor of Old Testament at the State University in Groningen. He has published a major, four-volume commentary on Deuteronomy in Dutch. Prof. Dr. Labuschagne has been actively involved in the struggle for social justice in South Africa, particularly in the fight against apartheid ideology in the church. Product Description Claiming that biblical writings were composed according to compositional techniques in which the counting of words pays a crucial role, the author demonstrates how symbolic numbers such as 7 and 12, and the numerical value of the name YHWH were used to structure the text and deepen its contents.