What is it about?
The treatment of Gog and Magog in western literature.
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Why is it important?
The survey provides evidence that the theme of Gog and Magog occurs in the output of a wide array of authors and often in ways which are disruptive of settled notions of reality.
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For me it is a good example of a biblical trope which has slender beginnings as a hypotext but which flowers in its literary afterlife.
Dr ANTHONY C SWINDELL
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This page is a summary of: Gog and Magog in Literary Reception History: The Persistence of the Fantastic, Journal of the Bible and its Reception, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2016-1003.
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