Barry S. Roffman's Ark Code Home Page

For 15 years I've studied the Bible Code to learn if it contains the site of the Ark of the Covenant. Why? Michael Drosnin’s (1997) book, THE BIBLE CODE, claimed the future of the world, including an atomic holocaust, is encoded in Torah. As a U.S. Coast Guard officer/military planner with Hebrew skills, I needed to know if Drosnin's predictions were valid; and suspected that a real Code would include the location of the Ark. After 2 expeditions to Egypt, I've concluded that any idea of a general predictive Code needs to be modified in accordance with Talmudic principles and the concept of Free Will. Not everyone will find their name in the Bible Code. Further, Drosnin's atomic holocaust warnings are not statistically significant. However, the redundant maps summarized below and throughout this site are significant. They strongly suggest an Ark Code that pinpoints where Jeremiah hid the Ark when he was forced into Egyptian exile (Jeremiah 43:7), near where local Bedouins say Moses split the sea at Lake Bardawil. 

HOW BIBLE CODE MAPS ARE ENCODED.

    The first 5 books of the Bible (Torah) contain a redundant series of maps that point to a single location for the Ark of the Covenant. Key site names are encoded in such manner as to have the angles between Jerusalem, Egyptian towns or sites, and the suspect Ark site exactly correspond to actual course headings on real world maps. The purpose of this site is to document these maps (found by myself and by Dr. Robert Haralick of the City University of New York Computer Science Graduate Studies Department), and to help facilitate actions required to investigate the site (and, of course - recover the Ark if it's there). To understand the Bible Code, you will find it well worthwhile to view Part 1 of my slide presentation. Also see Basic Terms and concepts.     The search for the Ark via the Bible Code has always been an attempt to learn any of the Bible Code is real, or an illusion produced by sloppy scientific procedures. An Ark find in the specified area would constitute the required extraordinary evidence for at least a limited predictive Code because the maps would have to have been made based on prior knowledge of where the Prime Meridian (used to denote longitude) would be placed in 1884 - over 3,000 years after Torah was written.     Ten maps have been found in Torah pointing to the Ark's resting site at 31^o9’ North, 33^o4’ East on the Bardawil (El Zuqba) Peninsula of the Northern Sinai in Egypt. However, success in recovering the Ark will largely depend upon expedition financing and permits required from the Egyptian Government. The site is in an Egyptian military-restricted zone, generally open only to Bedouin natives. For a recent satellite photo of the site and the Egyptian military base located about 1.6 miles away, see BASE.  The first Bible Code Map pointing to the Ark of the Covenant is posted above. It is explained at ELS MAP 1. For a comparison with other maps found pointing to the same site, see COMPARISON or the more interactive list in the next section below. To view a slide show explaining the maps, see Part 2 of my slide show. If you are interested in alternate theories about the Ark's location (like Jerusalem, Ethiopia, Rome, etc.) you can find quick answers to your questions at Part 4 of my slide show. There are also more in depth articles about the major suspect sites posted here (see the Table of Contents Part 1)

WHY ARE ELS MAPS SO IMPORTANT? For years, scientists have been working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) program. SETI uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally. As such, detection would suggest evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Now, imagine what would occur if SETI detected a redundant binary signal meaning 3.14159. This equates to the first six digits of Pi, a number required for development of any mathematically based civilization. If it were certified that this transmission originated in another star system, would there be any question about whether or not we had detected life elsewhere? Hardly. Likewise, on ELS Maps presented on this site, it is shown that there is such a redundant signal (presumably encoded by our Creator) in Torah: 251.565. This, in degrees True, is the course from Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the site on the El Zuqba (Bardawil) Peninsula in Egypt where the Ark appears to lay waiting. Just how redundant is this signal? It occurs on the ELS Maps shown on the table at the bottom of this page.

WHAT ELSE IS ON THIS SITE? There is an extensive current events section with a frequent focus on Barack Obama, a section about the Torah Code and in particular the Ark of the Covenant, one on Israel and religious questions, one on UFOs and science, and final a section about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Section 1 of the Table of Contents will take you to articles related to current events and recent history back to 2009. There are several pages pertaining to the threat from Iran, a section that takes a quick look at candidates for the Republican for President in 2012. There are also numerous pages that deal with natural disasters and other newsworthy stories.

There is also a section on the Dead Sea Scrolls with a focus on the Book of Isaiah for verses that are translated or interpreted in conflicting fashions by modern Judaism and Christianity.

The ELS Maps spoken about at the top of this page can be accessed via the links in the first column of the Table below. ELS Maps 12 and 16 include personal names that are only relevant because the Code is alleged to be predictive. While the presence of my name proves nothing as other names might also be found, the absence of my name would tend to indicate that the maps are not valid. This is because the discovery of the Ark via ELS Maps would be one of the most significant events that could occur. It would almost certainly be an event that would merit the name of the discoverer.