The Bible Code (book) the DNA of the human genetic code to Earth). Drosnin elaborates on this theory in "The Bible Code II", suggesting that the alien who brought the code left the key to the code in a steel obelisk. Drosnin attempted to find this obelisk, which he believes is buried near the Dead Sea. Drosnin's book is based on the technique described in the paper "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" by Professor Eliyahu Rips of the Hebrew University in Israel with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg. "The Bible Code" makes numerous predictions and post-diction, such as the false prediction
The Destruction of the European Jews marking the translation of his book into Hebrew. A key reason as to why notable Jews and organizations were hostile to Hilberg's work was that "The Destruction" relied most of all on German documents, whereas Jewish accounts and sources were featured far less prominently. This, argued Hilberg's opponents, trivialized the suffering Jews endured under Nazism. For his part, Hilberg maintains that these sources simply could not have been central to a systematic, social-scientific reconstruction of the destruction process. Another important factor for this hostility by many in the Jewish community (including some Holocaust survivors) is that Hilberg refused to view