The Spaceships of Ezekiel
by Josef F. Blumrich
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The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 - February 10, 2002) on a spaceship that was supposedly observed by the prophet Ezekiel, written while the author was chief of NASA's systems layout branch of the program development office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Blumrich went, after ufologists like Erich von Däniken had pointed to the possibility to interpret Ezekiel's vision as a report about an extraterrestrial spacecraft, to disprove this show more hypothesis. A thorough examination, though, convinced him that Ezekiel had, in fact, seen a spacecraft, and occasioned him to fabricate detailed drawings of the latter. He stated the technology of the creators of the craft must have been a little bit higher developed than that of mankind of the present, and that he had seldom felt as delighted, satisfied, and fascinated by a full defeat. In The Spaceships of Ezekiel Blumrich asserts that Ezekiel's account in the Bible was not a description of a meeting with God in a prophetic vision, but one of several encounters with ancient astronauts in a shuttlecraft from another planet. Blumrich analyzes six different translations of the Bible in conjunction with his experience in engineering and presents one possible version of Ezekiel's visions of how God -- described as riding in an elaborate vehicle capable to see, attended by angels -- supposedly showed him the future and gave him various messages to deliver. In the appendices to the book he presents technical specifications of the hypothesized spacecraft. Blumrich also published an article on his belief, "The spaceships of the prophet Ezekiel", in the UNESCO journal Impact of Science on Society. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Spaceships of Ezekiel
- Original title
- Da tat sich der Himmel auf
- Original publication date
- 1973-03
- First words
- [Foreword] I wrote this book after reading Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken.
This book is the result of a search. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And it is not our destiny to cling to the impossible--but to find the possible.
- Original language
- German
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 001.9421
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 001.9421 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Knowledge Controversial knowledge Mysteries Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) Ancient astronauts
- LCC
- BS1545.5 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion The Bible The Bible Old Testament Special parts of the Old Testament
- BISAC
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- 129
- Popularity
- 226,674
- Reviews
- 1
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- (2.71)
- Languages
- 5 — English, Finnish, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 3
