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“ How can I myself alone , ” the Deuteronomic Moses tells the people , " bear your cumbrance , and your burden , and your strife ? " ( Deut . 1:12 ) . Just before Jethro advises a necessary division of labor , Moses has related to him ...
“ How can I myself alone , ” the Deuteronomic Moses tells the people , " bear your cumbrance , and your burden , and your strife ? " ( Deut . 1:12 ) . Just before Jethro advises a necessary division of labor , Moses has related to him ...
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matter : Moses made the fatal mistake of saying , ' Shall we bring you forth water ' , instead of saying ' Shall God bring you forth water ' , as in all the other miracles where the authorship of God is always explicitly stressed ( cf.
matter : Moses made the fatal mistake of saying , ' Shall we bring you forth water ' , instead of saying ' Shall God bring you forth water ' , as in all the other miracles where the authorship of God is always explicitly stressed ( cf.
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gories that cannot be crossed — even as limits exist in the principles of the religion Moses helped found . That Moses constantly strives to cross over Jordan - implying that he could lead the people in perpetuity , for there would ...
gories that cannot be crossed — even as limits exist in the principles of the religion Moses helped found . That Moses constantly strives to cross over Jordan - implying that he could lead the people in perpetuity , for there would ...
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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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