Oedipus was innocent
Malcolm Bull, 10 March 1994
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
by Norman Cohn.
Yale, 271 pp., £20, October 1993,0 300 05598 6 Show More
by Norman Cohn.
Yale, 271 pp., £20, October 1993,
“... influence may have been transmitted via this route, it is worth considering the case of David Koresh and the Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists. The siege at Waco had an uncannily Zoroastrian ending. Not only is fire, the eschatological cleanser, the sacred element of Zoroastrianism; and not only is Koresh, meaning Cyrus, the name of the ... ”
