Ivan Panin
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Ivan Nikolayevitsh Panin (12 December 1855 – 30 October 1942) was a Russian emigrant to the United States who achieved fame for claiming that the text of the Hebrew and Greek Bible contained numeric patterns.
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[edit] Biography
Ivan Nikolayevitsh Panin was born in Russia on 12 December 1855. Having participated in plots against the Czar at an early age, he was exiled and emigrated first to Germany and then to the United States. Self confessed as "self taught", in 1878 he entered Harvard University. After 4 years, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During the first year of his university studies he took a few mathematics courses but didn't excel. After graduation in 1882 he became known for his lectures on Russian literature.
He also converted from Agnosticism and Nihilism to Christianity.
In 1890, Panin believed he had discovered amazing patterns in the Hebrew text of the Psalms, and soon afterwards in the Greek text of the New Testament. Thereafter, until his death in 1942, he was to devote over 50 years of his life to painstakingly exploring the numerical structure of the Scriptures, generating over 43,000 detailed, hand-penned pages of analysis. A sampling of his discoveries were published, and are still being published repeatedly.
However, outside reviews of his work cast much doubt on the value of his findings. A review of his work on the Gospel of Mark suggests that he freely picked and chose from various alternative readings of manuscripts, and that any patterns he claimed to have found were in fact his own creation. The main criticism is that the same kind of numeric patterns can be found from any text. There is also a computer program called Panin's panic that can create similar numerical patterns from given text.
First known for the letter written to the New York Sun entitled The Inspiration of the Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated published in the issue of Sunday, 19 November 1899. This was then republished by the author in a pamphlet of over fifty pages.
[edit] Quotes
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin
[edit] Works
[edit] Published works
- 1914: The New Testament from the Greek Text as Established by Bible Numerics. New Haven: Bible Numerics Co.
- 1918: The Writings of Ivan Panin
- 1923: Bible Chronology
- 1934: The Shorter Works of Ivan Panin
- New Testament in the Original Greek The Text Established By Means of Bible Numerics
- Bible Numerics
- The Last Twelve Verses Of Mark
- A Holy Challenge For Today - On Revision of the New Testament Text
- Verbal Inspiration Of The Bible Scientifically Demonstrated
- The Inspiration Of The Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated
- The Inspiration Of The Hebrew Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated
- The Gospel And The Kingdom - What About Dispensationalism?
- Once In Grace, Always In Grace? - A Review of First Principles
[edit] Published Letters
- 1899: Inspiration Of The Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated - Letter to the New York Sun
