Textual Analysis - Statistical Analysis

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

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Textual Analysis
Statistical Analysis of Verses Cited

Blumrich: "Verse 4: Of all the passages of Ezekiel's book that have technical relevance this is the only one where the commander is directly identified with God ("the Lord")."

This is an excellent example of a fundamental error in Blumrich's method of analysis:

You can use any text to prove anything if you ignore NINETY-FOUR PERCENT of the text!

CHART 1
EZEKIEL: 48 CHAPTERS, 1273 VERSES
Key: Chapter Number - Number of Verses in Chapter

1 - 28
2 - 10
3 - 27
4 - 17
5 - 17
6 - 14

7  - 27
8  - 18
9  - 11
10 - 22
11 - 25
12 - 28

13 - 23
14 - 23
15 - 08
16 - 63
17 - 24
18 - 32

19 - 14
20 - 49
21 - 32
22 - 31
23 - 49
24 - 27

25 - 17
26 - 21
27 - 36
28 - 26
29 - 21
30 - 26

31 - 18
32 - 32
33 - 33
34 - 31
35 - 15
36 - 38

37 - 28
38 - 23
39 - 29
40 - 49
41 - 26
42 - 20

43 - 27
44 - 31
45 - 25
46 - 24
47 - 23
48 - 35

CHART 2
BLUMRICH: 79 VERSES = 6.2%
Key: Chapter, Verses Used, Count

1
2
3
8
9

1-28
9-10
5-6,12-15,22-24
1-4
1-5,11

28
2
9
4
6

10
11
40
43
44

1-4,6-7,12-13,16,18,20,22
1-2,22-24
1-4
1-7
1,4

12
5
4
7
2

This is every Bible verse referenced by Blumrich in his book!

In other words, per Chart 1, Chapter 11 has 25 verses. Per Chart 2, Blumrich referenced 5 of them—Verses: 1, 2, 22, 23 and 24.

Also keep in mind that in a number of cases Blumrich only quotes part of a verse.

Let's put this in perspective. Richard M. Nixon, former U.S. President, was born in Whittier, California. Imagine how ridiculous it would be for an author to say:

"I don't think Richard M. Nixon was ever President of the United States. I examined hundreds of sentences about 'Whittier, California' and only one sentence said Nixon was President."

It is absolutely ridiculous for Blumrich to limit his source material to "passages that have technical relevance" and then make statements about non-technical matters based on such material! Why not say, "I only looked at sentences that have the word 'guacamole' in them and I found no evidence."?

There are approximately 31,273 verses in the Bible.

Blumrich quoted parts of 79 verses.

That is ONE-QUARTER of ONE PERCENT: 0.25%. Looked at another way, that is ONE verse out of every FOUR HUNDRED verses.

And even with that, to scrounge up enough "supporting data" to make his interpretation sound half-way plausible he needed two significant mistranslations ("round feet" and "vehicular structure") and he had to disregard Ezekiel's overall description of the shape of the craft and falsely claim the vehicle body was round.

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