ʿUj ibn ʿAnāq
Also known as: Uj ibn Anaq, Ogias
Basic account
He is the biblical Og, after five centuries of retelling. By the end he was standing knee-deep in the open ocean, catching whales and holding them up to the sun to cook.
Account
Uj ibn Anaq is not in the Qur'an and not in the canonical hadith. He comes into Arabic literature out of Jewish folklore and the Hebrew Bible, where he is Og, the Amorite king of Bashan whom Moses defeats at Edrei.
Motifs
- Grown in the telling
- The people who came before
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What is disputed
Where he came from before the Bible.
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Sources
- Numbers 21 and Deuteronomy 3
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