enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Magog (Bible) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magog_(Bible)

    Josephus refers to Magog son of Japheth as progenitor of Scythians, or peoples north of the Black Sea. [2] According to him, the Greeks called Scythia Magogia. [3] An alternate identification derived from an examination of the order in which tribal names are listed in Ezekiel 38, "would place Magog between Cappadocia and Media."

  3. Gog and Magog - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

    The form "Gog and Magog" may have emerged as shorthand for "Gog and/of the land of Magog", based on their usage in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. [11] An example of this combined form in Hebrew (Gog u-Magog) has been found, but its context is unclear, being preserved only in a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  4. Meshech - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshech

    The World as known to the Hebrews. This 1854 map [1] locates Meshech together with Gog and Magog, roughly in the southern Caucasus.. In the Bible, Meshech or Mosoch (Hebrew: מֶשֶׁך ‎ Mešeḵ "price" or "precious") is named as a son of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5.

  5. Gomer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer

    The eponymous Gomer, "standing for the whole family," as the compilers of The Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it, [1] is also mentioned in Book of Ezekiel 38:6 as the ally of Gog, the chief of the land of Magog. The Hebrew name Gomer refers to the Cimmerians, who dwelt in Pontic–Caspian steppe, "beyond the Caucasus", [2] and attacked Assyria in ...

  6. Josephus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus

    Although Josephus says that he describes the events contained in Antiquities "in the order of time that belongs to them," [62] Feldman argues that Josephus "aimed to organize [his] material systematically rather than chronologically" and had a scope that "ranged far beyond mere political history to political institutions, religious and private ...

  7. Japhetites - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japhetites

    The Sefer haYashar ("Book of Jasher"), written by Talmudic rabbis in the 17th century (first printed in 1625), ostensibly based on an earlier edition of 1552, provides some new names for Japheth's grandchildren: Gomer (sons were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah [17]) Magog (sons were Elichanaf and Lubal [18]) Madai (sons were Achon, Zeelo ...

  8. Traditional Jewish chronology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Jewish_chronology

    Where the Hebrew Bible (I Kings 11:42) assigns Solomon's reign as 40 years, Josephus (Antiquities 8.7.8.) puts his reign at 80 years. Josephus also grossly erred in writing that a span of 514 years transpired from the time of the first and last kings of David's dynasty (being 21 kings altogether). [291]

  9. Ezekiel 38 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel_38

    Ezekiel 38 is the thirty-eighth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This and the following chapter form a section dealing with "Gog, of the land of Magog". [1]