Michelangelo 'hid secret code in Sistine Chapel'


	Michelangelo 'hid secret code in Sistine Chapel'

pitim

7-1-2008 5:13 PM

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7-2-2008 2:09 AM

merrie

Interesting, but I would like to be able to see the figures
that the author claims to be Hebrew characters.

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The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which the renaissance artist worked on for 
  four years in the early 16th century, is actually a "bridge" 
  between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish faith, according to <I>The 
  Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo's Defiant Masterpiece</I>.
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The book, which is already on the New York Times bestseller list, is the work 
  of Rabbi Benjamin Blech, an associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva 
  University in New York, and Roy Doliner, a tour guide at the Vatican.
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Scanning through the arrangement of figures on the vast 14,000 square foot 
  ceiling, the authors have found shapes that correspond to Hebrew letters.
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