Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. What Might Have Been 2. Moving to Mount Carmel 3. Unlocking the Seven Seals 4. The Sinful Messiah 5. A Complex Hostage / Barricade Rescue Situation 6. The Wacko from Waco 7. The Cult Controversy 8. Waco and Religious Freedom in America Appendix: An Unfinished Manuscript by David Koresh Notes A Note on Sources Index List of Mount Carmel Branch Davidians Illustrations following page 146

About the Author

James D. Tabor is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the coauthor of A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom in Antiquity (1992). Eugene V. Gallagher is Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Expectation and Experience: Explaining Religious Conversion (1990).

Reviews

"It's a dramatic, eye-opening story told in the book with rich detail. An appendix provides a wealth of previously classified materials, showing how Koresh and an army of federal agents failed to communicate with each other. "Why Waco seems destined to raise questions that go beyond the siege itself."--Josh Getlin, "Los Angeles Times