num_pages: 320
description: Gog and Magog is a religious chronicle in fictional form. Its heroes are Hasidic rapbis. Its background is the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Its scene is laid in Poland and Hungary. Although magic and superstition play their parts in the story, it is really Buber's effort to articulate two approaches to the May men use evil to accomplish good? May men take power in their own hands—even to do the work of redemption—without submitting first to the will of God? More particularly Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectation that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day.
language: English
title: Gog and Magog: A Novel
titlecomplete: Gog and Magog: A Novel (Martin Buber Library)
genres: Judaism, Philosophy
ratings_count: 39
series: Martin Buber Library
publisher: Syracuse University Press