1. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1995), 6–14.
2. For details on this eschatological hope, see, for example, Hal Lindsey’s (with Carole C. Carolson) best-seller The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1970).
3. Ernest Sandeen, The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800–1930 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1978).
4. A. G. Mojtabai, Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986).
5. Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America 1880s-2000 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).