Notes to "Waco and the Apocalypse"

1. See the discussion of propositional and pictorial language in Eugene Boring, Revelation [IBC. Louisville, KY: John Knox, 1989], 51­58.

2. See Hayden White, "The Fictions of Factual Representation," Tropics of Discourse, 121­134.

3. White, 129.

4. See From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco (ed. James R. Lewis; Lanham, Maryland: Roman & Littlefield, 1994.

5. This claim is made by James Tabor and J. Phillip Arnold, ibid., 13­31; and James D. Tabor, "Religious Discourse and Failed Negotiations: The Dynamics of Biblical Apocalypticism in Waco," in Armageddon in Waco (ed. Stuart A. Wright; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 263­81. See also James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher, Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

6. See the remarks by Larry McMurtry, "Return to Waco," The New Republic, June 7, 1993, 16­19.

7. See Adela Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984) 84­110.

8. Wayne A. Meeks, The Moral World of the First Christians (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986) 143­4.

9. Leonard Thompson, The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire; [New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

10. Thompson, 175.