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The ability of future generations to make the text answer their questions , without distorting it beyond recognition , is part of the Bible's power . As with any fundamental text , what the Bible is depends partly on what it contains ...
The ability of future generations to make the text answer their questions , without distorting it beyond recognition , is part of the Bible's power . As with any fundamental text , what the Bible is depends partly on what it contains ...
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But this did not answer the complaint that Dathan and Abiram ( and the others ) had not come with him just to wander endlessly in the wilderness . There are three expressions for ruling , Hirsch tells us , which sound alike in Hebrew ...
But this did not answer the complaint that Dathan and Abiram ( and the others ) had not come with him just to wander endlessly in the wilderness . There are three expressions for ruling , Hirsch tells us , which sound alike in Hebrew ...
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The answer to the question of human identity ( Who am I ? ) is to be part of a strong group ; the answer to the question of action ( What should I do ? ) is to follow detailed prescriptions . Now this has to be hierarchical .
The answer to the question of human identity ( Who am I ? ) is to be part of a strong group ; the answer to the question of action ( What should I do ? ) is to follow detailed prescriptions . Now this has to be hierarchical .
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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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