One of the notable people who not only praises the work and the author’s laborious research, but also contributed to the author’s success in this endeavor, was no other than Eugene Ulrich. The chief editor of Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls is one of the three individuals with complete authority on this subject.

Ulrich, who dedicated his life to the Hebrew Scriptures, the manuscripts and the Septuagint, not only confirmed the authenticity of Timothy P. Smith’s sources, namely those in the Masoretic Text (“tradition,” in Hebrew), based on the Codex Leningradensis – the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible – as well as the Aleppo Codex, though without most of the Pentateuch.

The Masoretes noticed discrepancies between the Hebrew and the Aramaic, thus creating a codified matrix, making sure that each verse, word and letter were meticulously calculated, which conferred a rigorous consistency to the Masoretic text. It is universally accepted today as the authentic Hebrew Bible, having been elaborated in Talmud schools between the seventh and tenth centuries AD, with the purpose of transmitting the true message of God to future generations.

Throughout the book, Smith describes extensively his overall steps when it comes to the interpretation of archaic biblical texts, particularly verses 20-23 of Genesis 30, an interpretation whose authenticity is assured, not only by Ulrich, but by several other scholars who in some cases may have been largely surpassed by this self-taught investigator.

To better perceive what there was beyond those verses in Gen. 30 in relation to his family – now that he too was a father to six boys and one girl (the last of the seven children), just as had been with his father, and just as is depicted in the biblical passage – Timothy P. Smith learned from experiences among Native American communities, as well as conversations with scholars and scientists on this subject: to ascertain the existence of a sequence in the biblical text that can be decoded, that may take us to find a number of messages God prepared for His people and for a determined time, a time that may have come given Smith’s results.

And yet, he claims this is but the tip of the iceberg.

This kind of confused me. Whilst I think the writer has a fairly easy and open style, this is more autobiographical in some senses than anything else. It's obvious that Smith's faith greatly influences not just this book but his life in general. Whilst that's an admirable thing, I'm not remotely religious myself and found it hard to relate with someone who quite clearly sees the world the way Smith does.

The actual "Chamberlain Key" doesn't come in until some way through and my interest waned fairly quickly, meaning when I did reach the crucial revelation (for want of a better word) I was already disengaged.