Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

847.0. "Koresh " by CVG::THOMPSON (Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?) Tue Feb 08 1994 07:12

    I've run across the name Koresh several times of late. The waco in
    Waco being one of course. However, over 100 years ago a man in the
    midwest started a religion of his own and took the name Koresh as well.
    He later moved his whole group to southwest Florida where they founded
    the town of Estero, where my mother in law lives. The religion has
    mostly died out and most of their property was deeded to the state
    of Florida where it is now known as the Koreshian State Historic Site.
    Many of the original buildings are being restored and preserved.

    In any case, I haven't been through the park but I picked up a
    brochure. The name Koresh is called a Biblical name. I believe that
    David Koresh called it such as well. This all got my curiosity going.

    The problem is that I can't find the name Koresh in any of my Bibles.
    Even my reference that lists some alternate spellings for names doesn't
    list it. Can anyone help me out here? Was there a Koresh in the Bible?
    Or perhaps in a book in the Apocrypha? Thanks.

    		Alfred

    I didn't know either but I heard a phone interview with David Koresh
    a few months before he died.  It is definitely tied in with the book of
    Isaiah somehow but I cannot remember his explanation.
    
    -Jack

    Also see Topic 615 "David Koresh and the Branch Davidian"
    
    Richard
    

    I'm told that Koresh is Cyrus. Now I have a name I can look up.
    
    		Alfred