“Russia is a Gog”: Scenes from a German Tradition

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Volume 1
5. Introduction: Gog and Magog and their Worlds 1
6. Beyond the Wall: Eurasian Steppe Nomads in the Gog and Magog Motif 23
7. “Impenetrable, Physical, Tall, Powerful, Beautiful?” Comparative Considerations on the Imperial Border Walls of the Ancient World (Sumer, Egypt, Assyria, China, Rome, Iran) 55
8. Gog from Magog: A Supporting Actor in the End Time Restitution 83
9. Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature I: Literature Unconnected to the Alexander Legend Prior to Michael the Syrian 105
10. The Reception of Gog and Magog in Jewish Traditions at the Emergence of Islam 133
11. Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature II: Literature Connected to the Alexander Legend Prior to Michael the Syrian 153
12. Gog and Magog between Exegesis and Prophecy in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries CE 211
13. Gog & Magog in Byzantium – A Pessimistic Story 227
14. The Enclosed Nations of Mandæan Lore 243
15. Gog and Magog in Islam: A Permanent Geographic Problem 277
16. Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature III: Literature from Michael the Syrian to the Modern Era 289
17. Hide and Seek with a Monster: Gog and Other Antichrists in Joachim of Fiore’s Eschatology 329
18. Gog et Magog nondum sunt in orbe nec umquam fuerunt. – John of Rupescissa, the Hardened Dregs of the Next Antichrist and Christian Self-Criticism 339
19. The Formation of the Gog/Magog-Concept and Its Use in Medieval Latin Historiography (until 1200) 403
20. Het ez sant Peter getan, / Ez wer wünders mehr dann vil. Alexander, Gog und Magog in der (deutschen) Literatur des Mittelalters 421
21. Von Riesen und Rittern zum islamischen Feind. Gog und Magog in der mittelalterlichen Apokalypse-Illustration 457
22. Gog and Magog as Geographical Realities in Late Medieval Latin Europe 495
23. Gog and Magog or Allies? The Perception of the Ottoman Empire in Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer 507
24. Alexander and Gog and Magog in Ottoman Illustrated Texts: Presenting the Pādişāh as the End-Times’ World Sovereign in an Age of Eschatological Enthusiasm 533
25. From Turk to Tyrant: Gog in Seventeenth-Century English Ezekiel Commentary 575
26. Volume 2
27. Gog and Magog in Malay-Indonesian Islamic Exegetical Works 597
28. Yaʾjūj and Maʾjūj in the Báb’s Qayyūm al-Asmāʾ 617
29. 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) 629
30. Gog and Magog in Hasidism: Actualizing, Spiritualizing, and Marginalizing the Evil that Precedes Redemption 651
31. “The Climate Will Change Again and Yeʾcüc and Meʾcüc Will Leave Their Places”: Gog and Magog in Two Late Ottoman Texts 669
32. “I Am the Son of Gog and Magog.” Assuming the Role of Destroyer and Renovator in a Programmatic Poem by Endre Ady (1906) 701
33. Asian Horsemen, Bolshevik Monsters. Europe’s Primal Fear of the East 715
34. The Enemy within: A Structural Approach to the Transmission of the Motif of Gog and Magog into the Modern Dialectics of Internationalization and Nationalization 743
35. Outside, Over There: Buber’s Gog and Magog and Why He Told Stories about Evil 767
36. The Faces of Gog and Magog in Islam 787
37. Awaiting the Battle of Gog and Magog: Christians, Jews, and the Yearning for Apocalyptic Times 819
38. Gog and Magog in Muslim Teleological Eschatology: Traditional Islamic Narrations and Modern Islamist Politicizations 843
39. Narrative Subordination: Comparative Approaches to Gog and Magog as Literary Figures 865
40. GOG/MAGOG. A Disinformation Campaign 877
41. “Russia is a Gog”: Scenes from a German Tradition 913
42. Bibliography 959
43. Index 1047
44. List of Contributors 1069