Gog and Magog: Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Gog and Magog

Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif

Edited by: Georges Tamer , Andrew Mein and Lutz Greisiger

Volume 17 in the series Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720235

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About this book

The tale of a collective evil force known as Gog and Magog has occupied the imagination of Jews, Christians, and Muslims for millennia, finding expression in literary and scholarly works and other cultural artifacts. This book gathers the papers from two conferences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg by scholars ranging from history, to religious studies, to art history, and is the most thorough work on the subject to date.

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Georges Tamer, Erlangen, Lutz Greisiger, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and Andrew Mein, St Andrews, Great Britain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Volume 1
Introduction: Gog and Magog and their Worlds Georges Tamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Beyond the Wall: Eurasian Steppe Nomads in the Gog and Magog Motif Agustí Alemany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
“Impenetrable, Physical, Tall, Powerful, Beautiful?” Comparative Considerations on the Imperial Border Walls of the Ancient World (Sumer, Egypt, Assyria, China, Rome, Iran) David Engels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Gog from Magog: A Supporting Actor in the End Time Restitution Susanne Talabardon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature I: Literature Unconnected to the Alexander Legend Prior to Michael the Syrian Mark Dickens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
The Reception of Gog and Magog in Jewish Traditions at the Emergence of Islam Helen Spurling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature II: Literature Connected to the Alexander Legend Prior to Michael the Syrian Mark Dickens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Gog and Magog between Exegesis and Prophecy in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries CE James T. Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Gog & Magog in Byzantium – A Pessimistic Story Wolfram Brandes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
The Enclosed Nations of Mandæan Lore Charles G. Häberl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Gog and Magog in Islam: A Permanent Geographic Problem David Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature III: Literature from Michael the Syrian to the Modern Era Mark Dickens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Hide and Seek with a Monster: Gog and Other Antichrists in Joachim of Fiore’s Eschatology Julia Eva Wannenmacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Gog et Magog nondum sunt in orbe nec umquam fuerunt. – John of Rupescissa, the Hardened Dregs of the Next Antichrist and Christian Self-Criticism Matthias Kaup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
The Formation of the Gog/Magog-Concept and Its Use in Medieval Latin Historiography (until 1200) Hans-Christian Lehner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Het ez sant Peter getan, / Ez wer wünders mehr dann vil. Alexander, Gog und Magog in der (deutschen) Literatur des Mittelalters Florian Kragl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Von Riesen und Rittern zum islamischen Feind. Gog und Magog in der mittelalterlichen Apokalypse-Illustration Peter K. Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Gog and Magog as Geographical Realities in Late Medieval Latin Europe Felicitas Schmieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Gog and Magog or Allies? The Perception of the Ottoman Empire in Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer Matthias Riedl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Alexander and Gog and Magog in Ottoman Illustrated Texts: Presenting the Pādişāh as the End-Times’ World Sovereign in an Age of Eschatological Enthusiasm W. Sasson Chahanovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
From Turk to Tyrant: Gog in Seventeenth-Century English Ezekiel Commentary Andrew Mein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
Volume 2
Gog and Magog in Malay-Indonesian Islamic Exegetical Works Majid Daneshgar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
Yaʾjūj and Maʾjūj in the Báb’s Qayyūm al-Asmāʾ Todd Lawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	617
Towards a Comparative and Literary Anthropology of Force and Chaos: Gog and Magog with Particular Reference to Kitāb al-Fitan by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād al-Marwazī (d.229/844) and The Tower of London by William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) Ian Richard Netton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
Gog and Magog in Hasidism: Actualizing, Spiritualizing, and Marginalizing the Evil that Precedes Redemption Gadi Sagiv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
“The Climate Will Change Again and Yeʾcüc and Meʾcüc Will Leave Their Places”: Gog and Magog in Two Late Ottoman Texts Ellinor Morack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	669
“I Am the Son of Gog and Magog.” Assuming the Role of Destroyer and Renovator in a Programmatic Poem by Endre Ady (1906) Tiborc Fazekas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	701
Asian Horsemen, Bolshevik Monsters. Europe’s Primal Fear of the East Jörn Happel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	715
The Enemy within: A Structural Approach to the Transmission of the Motif of Gog and Magog into the Modern Dialectics of Internationalization and Nationalization Christian Zolles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	743
Outside, Over There: Buber’s Gog and Magog and Why He Told Stories about Evil Dustin Atlas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	767
The Faces of Gog and Magog in Islam Ramy Abdin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	787
Awaiting the Battle of Gog and Magog: Christians, Jews, and the Yearning for Apocalyptic Times Yaakov Ariel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	819
Gog and Magog in Muslim Teleological Eschatology: Traditional Islamic Narrations and Modern Islamist Politicizations Nader El-Bizri and Zeinab Mirza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	843
Narrative Subordination: Comparative Approaches to Gog and Magog as Literary Figures Anna Ayşe Akasoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	865
GOG/MAGOG. A Disinformation Campaign Marina Dessau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	877
“Russia is a Gog”: Scenes from a German Tradition Lutz Greisiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	913
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	959
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1047
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1069

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 1071
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Coloured Illustrations: 69
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Gog and Magog; eschatology; Comparative religion; biblical reception

eBook

Published: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783110720235

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783110720150