A paper of Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg in this journal in 1994 made
the extraordinary claim that the Hebrew text of the Book of Genesis encodes
events which did not occur until millennia after the text was written. In
reply, we argue that Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg’s case is fatally
defective, indeed that their result merely reflects on the choices made in
designing their experiment and collecting the data for it. We present extensive
evidence in support of that conclusion. We also report on many new experiments
of our own, all of which failed to detect the alleged phenomenon.