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Gog and Magog

Gog and Magog

Ezekiel 38-39 as Pre-Text for Revelation 19: 17-21 and 20: 7-10

by Sverre Boe
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/2001

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The names 'Gog' and 'Magog' are found in the Old Testament, in the Pseud-Epigrapha and the Qumran-writings, in the Targums and in other Jewish texts, in the New Testament, in the wirtings of the Church Fathers, and even in the Koran. In most aof these texts Gog and Magog are persons or nations opposing God's people in the endtime-tribulations.Sverre Bøe focuses on John's use of various Gog and Magog traditions in Revelation 19,17-20,10. He assembles all these traditions and also refers to several hundreds of scholarly works on these many texts. He further contributes to the ongoing discussions about the inter-textual relationship between Revelation and the Old Testament. He argues that John used Ezekiel 38-39 extensively, and that there are structural analogies beween Rev. 19,11-22,5 and Ezek. 36-48. Although Sverre Bøe does not raise the fundamental questions about the co-called millennium in Rev. 20 as such, he givesmany implications for that issue also. Finally he concludes that Revelation does not see Gog and Magog as Israel's enemies in an ethnic sense, since John seems to universalize his pre-texts to fit the New Testament notion of God's people as comprising Christians of all nations.
ISBN:
9783161475207
9783161475207
Category:
Biblical studies & exegesis
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-2001
Language:
English
Publisher:
Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG
Country of origin:
Germany
Dimensions (mm):
155x232mm
Weight:
0.68kg

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