Perry, I would submit that the Hebrew end-of-days interpretation and that of the offshoot Christian world are quite different. I wouldn't go into the difference between the "second coming" and the appearance of Moshiach; but the "Judeo-Christian" phrase is not only not a spell ch...

Gentlemen, The Term Gog amongst those who are more learned than I in such matters generally is accepted to be a reference to include "Edom"; and this collective noun, as it must be, always includes a reference to Rome. I'll not go off into the discussions pertaining to members of Hebrew tr...

That is an interesting angle. I have an online "friend" who asserted that it is meant to differentiate the West from Russia who, in that context, is meant to take the fall for the traditionally expected War of Gog and Magog.

Thank you.

Thank you. It is my weak memory that such a theme in values has been widely accepted for centuries, though finding confirmation of the initial use of the phrase has been, as you saw, vague. It may be one of those things that we are sure we heard someone use at a vaguely unspecific time, but finding ...

It is generally said that the US and the West, in general, model their laws and traditions on "Judeo-Christian" values. Fine. One wonders for how long this descriptive phrase has been in use and if there is any known origin as one does not see it, to my knowledge, in literary works of the ...