The story behind the project
Eran Eliyahu Tobul (ערן אליהו טובול) is an independent researcher based in Miami, Florida. This multi-year project combines computational linguistics, statistical analysis, and genomics to investigate structural patterns in the Torah.
ORCID: 0009-0005-0032-7710
Contact: eran@vivogaming.co.uk
What began as a simple question — why do certain Hebrew letters appear in grammar while others carry meaning? — led to the discovery of a four-layer structural architecture embedded in the Torah text. The research expanded from morphological analysis to include divine name distribution, long-range statistical correlations, and ultimately a novel connection between Torah categories and transposable element architecture in the mammalian genome.
The work is empirical and data-driven. All analyses use publicly available data from Sefaria.org. All algorithms are published. All results are reproducible.
The study does not assert theological or metaphysical claims. It presents structural findings and their statistical significance. The interpretation is left to the reader.
Full package: books, papers, code, data. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18744642
Published · CC BY 4.0Paper 1 submitted. Manuscript ID: DSH-2026-0196 (February 23, 2026).
Under ReviewPreprint submission in progress (cs.CL category).
In ProgressThis research benefited from discussions with Nimrod Amram Tobul, whose insights into kabbalistic letter classification and divine name tracking significantly enriched the analysis. The divine names chapter is dedicated to him.
Ophir Ben-David's rigorous 13-point critique strengthened the methodology, leading to block-shuffle null models and adversarial partition tests that improved the robustness of every major finding.