Gog and Magog in early Syriac and Islamic sources : Sallam's quest for Alexander's wall / / edited by Emeri van Donzel, Andrea Schmidt ; with a contribution by Claudia Ott.

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 search for the barrier to the Arab geographer Ibn K...

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Superior document:Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 22
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 22.
Physical Description:xviii, 279 p.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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