 His work was deeply inspired by the publication of the academic article entitled "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg in the journal "Statistical Science", published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, in August 1994.In 1997, Simon & Schuster published Drosnin's "The Bible Code", the culmination of his research, which asserts that the Bible Code predicts the future and that events can be affected by our actions.The book also states that many famous assassinations — both past and future — were foretold in the Bible, and that the code can be interpreted with the help of a computer program.