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Three times Balak builds great altars laden with sacrifices in Moab so that Balaam should look over and curse Israel . Each time Balaam says , as he did at first , “ How shall I curse , whom God hath not cursed ? or how shall I defy ...
Three times Balak builds great altars laden with sacrifices in Moab so that Balaam should look over and curse Israel . Each time Balaam says , as he did at first , “ How shall I curse , whom God hath not cursed ? or how shall I defy ...
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By struggling to overcome his own ambivalence , Jacob is blessed , so as to become in his person the body of Israel . Moses has the harder task of wrestling with the body of the people of Israel . And , like Jacob , Moses is wounded in ...
By struggling to overcome his own ambivalence , Jacob is blessed , so as to become in his person the body of Israel . Moses has the harder task of wrestling with the body of the people of Israel . And , like Jacob , Moses is wounded in ...
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First came the lice , then “ the cattle of Egypt died : but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one " ( Exod . 9 : 6 ) . To drive home the thesis that safety lies in separation ( Hebrews from Egyptians , the people of God ...
First came the lice , then “ the cattle of Egypt died : but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one " ( Exod . 9 : 6 ) . To drive home the thesis that safety lies in separation ( Hebrews from Egyptians , the people of God ...
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader |
| Author | Aaron B. Wildavsky |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0817301682, 9780817301682 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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