Textual Analysis - Round Vehicle

	The Spaceships of Ezekiel Are there Flying Saucers in the Bible?

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Textual Analysis
Round vehicle

Nothing in the Bible text Blumrich used supports his claim that the vehicle was round.

The single German-language Bible translation that Blumrich relies upon as the basis of his theory erroneously says that a foot was "round". Blumrich interpreted this as a description of landing gear. (Chap. 5 Fischinger interview)

However, Blumrich simply assumes that the vehicle itself also was round. He does not cite any biblical text to support this assumption. He then devises an entire vehicle on the basis of this completely unsupported assumption.

Left: NASA wind-tunnel study. The "screwdriver"section is part of the test rig.

Right: Blumrich's speculation

Some of the verses Blumrich cites in the book talk about light or flames or smoke being "round about". Don't be misled. Brightness being "round about" is not the same as a "circular vehicle". Even if the foot was round, and even if Ezekiel was describing a landing gear instead of an animal's foot, that still does not provide any basis whatsoever to conclude that the vehicle was round.

Verses Blumrich cites that mention "round"

— CHAPTER 1 —

1:4	As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.
1:7	Translation error Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were round; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
1:18	The four wheels had rims; and their rims were full of eyes round about.
1:27	I saw as it were gleaming bronze, as the appearance od the fire round about enclosing him. Upward from what had the appearance of his loins, and downward from what had the appearance of his loins, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.
1:28	Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that spoke.

— CHAPTER 10 —

Blumrich quotes Chapter 10, Verse 12 from several sources: References Verse 10:12
1	And their whole body, backs, hands and wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about; all four of them had wheels.
2	[End of 10:11] . . . they followed and they turned not . . . with their whole body, backs, hands and wings. And the wheels were full of eyes round about on all four wheels.
3	And their rims and their spokes, and the wheels were full of eyes round about—the wheels that the four of them had.
5	But their whole body, their back, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about.
6	And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
7	The rims of the four wheels were full of eyes all around.

Verses Blumrich cites that mention wheels

— CHAPTER 1 —

1:15	Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.
1:16	As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a Tarsis stone; and the four had the same likeness, their construction was as though one wheel were within another.
1:18	The four wheels had rims; and their rims were full of eyes round about.
1:19	And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.
1:20	Wherever the spirit would make them go, they went, for the spirit made them go; and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
1:21	When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

— CHAPTER 3 —

3:13

It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them that sounded like a great earthquake.

— CHAPTER 10 —

10:2	And he said to the man clothed in linen: "Go in among the wheels underneath the cherubim; fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." And he went in before my eyes.
10:6	And when he commanded the man clothed in linen: "Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim," he went in and stood beside a wheel.

Blumrich quotes Chapter 10, Verse 12 from several sources: References Verse 10:12
1	And their whole body, backs, hands and wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about; all four of them had wheels.
2	[End of 10:11] . . . they followed and they turned not . . . with their whole body, backs, hands and wings. And the wheels were full of eyes round about on all four wheels.
3	And their rims and their spokes, and the wheels were full of eyes round about—the wheels that the four of them had.
5	But their whole body, their back, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about.
6	And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
7	The rims of the four wheels were full of eyes all around.

10:13	As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the "galgal" (wheel work).
10:16	. . . when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them.

— CHAPTER 11 —

11:22

Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

As we can see, Blumrich quotes a lot of verses having to do with "round". But none of them are talking about the shape of the vehicle itself. No one writing about Blumrich or Ezekiel has noticed this! It's obvious from this site that I have spent years working with Blumrich's text in quite a bit of detail and I didn't notice it until I had worked closely with the text for more than three years!

And, of course, if there is no source text whatsoever to support Blumrich's conclusion that the vehicle was round, that means that his fundamental conclusions about the shape being chosen for aerodynamic reasons, etc., are nothing more than unsupported speculation.

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