%0 Journal Article
%T Isaiah 14: The Birth of a Zombie Apocalypse?
%A Stephen L. Cook
%J Interpretation
%@ 2159-340X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0020964318820592
%X Isaiah 14, a text about the infamous fall into the netherworld of a proud celestial being, has played a key role in the history of biblical understanding. In particular, the netherworld eschatology shaped Israelite end-time beliefs, or apocalyptic eschatology. In Isaiah 14, before readers¡¯ eyes, a transcendent archetype, the ill-fated ¡°Shining One,¡± materializes on earth as an historical figure, King Sargon II of Assyria. Later, the idea of an ¡°incarnation¡± of the Shining One as an earthly entity evolves as a key catalyst of a radical new religious imagination. In Ezekiel 38¨C39, the Shining One becomes ¡°incarnate¡± as Gog of Magog, a monstrous, but real, apocalyptic ¡°zombie.¡± Editors first reworked Isaiah 14 as a prophecy of Babylon¡¯s fall and later redeployed the text to depict a final, end-time reversal of Babylon¡¯s hubris
%K Afterlife
%K Assyria
%K Corpse Exposure
%K Cosmic Rebellion
%K Day Star
%K Son of Dawn
%K Funerary Dirge/Lament
%K Gog of Magog
%K Imperialism
%K Innerbiblical Interpretation
%K Intertextuality
%K Netherworld
%K Rod of My Anger
%K Sargon II
%K Second Death
%K Sheol
%K Shining One
%K Zombies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020964318820592