In the Christian "Alexander romance" literature, Gog and Magog were sometimes associated with the Khazars, a Turkic people who lived near the Caspian Sea. In his 9th century work "Expositio in Matthaeum Evangelistam", the Benedictine monk Christian of Stavelot refers to the Khazars as Hunnic descendants of Gog and Magog, and says they are ""circumcised and observing all laws of Judaism""; the Khazars were a Central Asian people with a long association with Judaism. A Georgian tradition, echoed in a chronicle, also identifies the Khazars with Gog and Magog, stating they are ""wild men with hideous faces and the manners of wild beasts, eaters of blood.""