Editing Gog and Magog (section)

==Christian texts==

=== Revelation ===
Chapters 19:11–21:8 of the [[Book of Revelation]], dating from the end of the 1st century AD,{{r|stuckenbruck}} tell how [[Satan]] is to be imprisoned for a thousand years, and how, on his release, he will rally "the nations in the four corners of the Earth, Gog and Magog", to a final battle with Christ and his saints:{{r|mounce}}

<blockquote>When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the Earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.<ref>{{Bibleverse | Revelation | 20:7–10 | NIV}} (NIV)</ref></blockquote>

=== Alexander Romance ===
The ''[[Alexander Romance]]'' of Pseudo-Callisthenes describes gates constructed by [[Alexander the Great]] between two mountains called the "Breasts of the North" ({{langx|el|Μαζοί Βορρά}}). The mountains are initially 18 feet apart and the pass is rather wide, but Alexander's prayers to [[God]] causes the mountains to draw nearer, thus narrowing the pass. There he builds the Caspian Gates out of bronze, coating them with fast-sticking oil. The gates enclosed twenty-two nations and their monarchs, including Gog and Magog (therein called "Goth and Magoth"). The geographic location of these mountains is rather vague, described as a 50-day march away northwards after Alexander put to flight his Belsyrian enemies (the [[Bebryces|Bebrykes]],{{sfn|Anderson|1932|p=35}} of [[Bithynia]] in modern-day North [[Turkey]]).{{sfn|Stoneman|1991|pp=185–187}}

Christian texts following in the tradition of the Alexander Romance, such as the [[Syriac Alexander Legend]] (late 7th century) and the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (7th century) would continue to identify Gog and Magog as among those barbarian groups encapsulated behind Alexander's walls, but they would also combine this with the apocalyptic motif of Revelation and assert that the end of the world would also involve the barbarian groups penetrating through the wall and bringing about the apocalypse.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Häberl |first=Charles |title=Gog and Magog: contributions toward a world history of an apocalyptic motif |date=2023 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=9783110720150 |editor-last=Tamer |editor-first=Georges |series=Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation |location=Berlin Boston |pages=259–260 |chapter=The Enclosed Nations of Mandaean Lore |editor-last2=Mein |editor-first2=Andrew |editor-last3=Greisiger |editor-first3=Lutz}}</ref>