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A reviewer at Publishers Weekly called the book "comprehensive and judicious". [2] The reviewer commented that it is a "sobering account" of the Waco siege. [2] Another reviewer at Kirkus Reviews called the book an "engrossing report on David Koresh and the endurance of cult culture". [3]
Also in 2011, British indie rock band the Indelicates released a concept album, David Koresh Superstar, about Koresh and the Waco siege. [178] [179] Japanese doom metal band Church of Misery released a song about Koresh and the Waco Siege on their 2023 album Born Under a Mad Sign entitled "Come and Get Me
Koresh (כּוֹרֶשׁ, Koresh) is the Biblical name of Cyrus the Great, a Persian king who is named a messiah for freeing Jews during the Babylonian captivity. By taking the name of David Koresh, he was "professing himself to be the spiritual descendant of King David, a messianic figure carrying out a divinely commissioned errand." [37]
Who was the man behind the shocking 1993 siege?
George Buchanan Roden (January 17, 1938 – December 8, 1998) was an American leader of the Branch Davidian sect, a Seventh-day Adventist splinter group. In 1987, he was evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas, by his rival David Koresh. [2]
Cook covers the history of the Branch Davidians, starting with a biography of David Koresh, the eventual leader of the Davidians. He then covers in-depth the Waco siege itself, especially life while under siege in the Mt. Carmel compound. Cook discusses at length the aftermath of the siege, including the litigation against Waco survivors ...
John O'Connor of The New York Times also noted the rapid production of the film that aired "little more than a month after the Texas fire that claimed the lives of David Koresh and 71 other people" and determined that "the elapsed time between news story and television docudrama grows ever shorter as networks scramble to exploit a seemingly ...
Steven Emil Schneider (October 16, 1949 – April 19, 1993 [1]) was an American Branch Davidian commonly called a "lieutenant" to David Koresh, the leader of the new religious movement. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was formally married to Judy Schneider, but in the community Koresh impregnated Judy and she bore a child with him. [ 4 ]