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Under the circumstances , seeing that Moses is not ready to lead , the Lord allows what He can : a show of authority , a bit of magic , a semblance of control . Actually , Moses moves aside and God takes over .
Under the circumstances , seeing that Moses is not ready to lead , the Lord allows what He can : a show of authority , a bit of magic , a semblance of control . Actually , Moses moves aside and God takes over .
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How long will the Lord continue to fight their battles ? If leadership is up to Moses , and if his followers threaten to desert him — morally as well as geographically - every time there is trouble , will he then have to do to the ...
How long will the Lord continue to fight their battles ? If leadership is up to Moses , and if his followers threaten to desert him — morally as well as geographically - every time there is trouble , will he then have to do to the ...
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Reeds , however , a perverse pattern is seen to be established ; the people protest , the Lord provides . Neither Moses nor the Lord but anarchy reigns . It is too much . Breathlessly ( not a spare word , nothing to indicate context ...
Reeds , however , a perverse pattern is seen to be established ; the people protest , the Lord provides . Neither Moses nor the Lord but anarchy reigns . It is too much . Breathlessly ( not a spare word , nothing to indicate context ...
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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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