To quote from the opening chapters:
“At the place of entry, the key is often hidden. Perhaps this is so with the most ancient of books, the Hebrew Bible. If there is a message encoded in the beginning, it would be the Bible’s first and most urgent message to us; the key that opens our understanding to the treasures that lie beyond. ….
We focus on the first four words of the Hebrew Bible with their unalterable primacy of place … Can anything substantive emerge from looking at half a verse? … We have a fourfold rationale and method to search for a key, including nine tests for what we find.
We will come upon a deep puzzle and within that a succession of clues … the clues begin to cohere and finally lead us to a complete but simple solution – a solution with direct implications for each of us ”
