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Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Other in Literature & Internet Texts

Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Other in Literature & Internet Texts

Doufikar-Aerts, Faustina
McGlinn, Sen
Seyed-Gohrab, Ali-Asghar

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Series: Iranian Studies

Literary CriticismBible StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

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ISBN10: 9087280904
ISBN13: 9789087280901
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Published: Sep 30 2011
Pages: 164
Language: English
Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Arab world, in Berber, Persian and Indonesian traditions, to contemporary internet texts: all use these imaginary monstrous creatures. The figures are constantly reinterpreted as the enemies of order change. Gog and Magog have been represented with dog heads, snake tongues. On the covers of contemporary Arab apocalyptic literature they may be giants or half-humans.

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