The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political LeaderUniversity of Alabama Press, 1984 - 262 pages |
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Page 26
... seeks to shore up leadership against endless attack and to guard the people against its excesses . Chapter 5 will show how - by not going to the land promised to him and his people - Moses exemplifies the great- est lesson he has to ...
... seeks to shore up leadership against endless attack and to guard the people against its excesses . Chapter 5 will show how - by not going to the land promised to him and his people - Moses exemplifies the great- est lesson he has to ...
Page 143
... seeks to supplement it with a dose of hierarchy . Another line of development parallels the long series of rebellions with which we have been concerned . Instead of confronting force with force , the force of rebellion with the force of ...
... seeks to supplement it with a dose of hierarchy . Another line of development parallels the long series of rebellions with which we have been concerned . Instead of confronting force with force , the force of rebellion with the force of ...
Page 214
... seeks to rise above the battle , substituting a holistic vision for the partial picture of the combatants in the social struggle . But he does not succeed in seeing the face of God , who alone is holy . For Moses , the land remains a ...
... seeks to rise above the battle , substituting a holistic vision for the partial picture of the combatants in the social struggle . But he does not succeed in seeing the face of God , who alone is holy . For Moses , the land remains a ...
Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader 27 | 27 |
Learning from | 62 |
Copyright | |
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