Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources: Sallam's Quest for Alexander's Wall by Andrea Schmidt, E. J. Donzel

Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources: Sallam's Quest for Alexander's Wall

Brill's Inner Asian Library

Andrea Schmidt, E. J. Donzel

271 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Alexander's alleged Wall against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam the Interpreter dictated an account of his sea...

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