Years ago I read some stuff by and about a Russian mathematician, Ivan Panin, whose works involved converting the Canon into a mathematical sequence, since supposedly hebrew, chaldee and greek letters also represented numbers. The claim was that the numerical patterns were violated by omissions or extra-canonical text, hence the true Bible could be deduced or extracted. This was before the PC revolution and I have not seen anything since—
His work is quite interesting. If you apply statistics to his research, you can deduce that each character of the text is inspired by god.