Gematria
"In this book on gematria the author has given statistically based evidence that a number of standardised gematria has been used in the Creation stories of Genesis. Simple and consistent rules have been found which transform these stories into evangelical parables."
H J Edwards
A sensitive investigation by the author into the first four chapters of the Bible. Gematria is an in-depth exploration for messianic markers laid down in the beginning of Genesis, a search for a promised one leading to the discovery of standard numbers (name signifiers) through gematria.
The author looks at the background tradition, how Isaiah repeatedly tells of a plan laid down from the beginning, how the numbers may have been lost and how they came to be found. From introducing the cipher numbers and describing their earliest appearance in Day One of Creation, the book goes on to examine each in its separate chapter for appositeness, for probability of occurrence, and its presence in other books of the Bible. The remarkable and prophetic allusions pertaining to 397.