The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political LeaderUniversity of Alabama Press, 1984 - 262 pages |
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... Better than Dostoevsky's The Possessed , James's Princess Cassamassima , or Conrad's Under Western Eyes , in my opinion ( though I despair of getting anyone who has heard only of Ivanhoe to read it ) , Old Mortality reveals the travails ...
... Better than Dostoevsky's The Possessed , James's Princess Cassamassima , or Conrad's Under Western Eyes , in my opinion ( though I despair of getting anyone who has heard only of Ivanhoe to read it ) , Old Mortality reveals the travails ...
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... better basis . Rabbinical commentators were no less ingenious in answering the charge that the Golden Calf showed ... better for her to be judged as a maid than as a bride . ' In the same way Moses thought : ' It were better for the ...
... better basis . Rabbinical commentators were no less ingenious in answering the charge that the Golden Calf showed ... better for her to be judged as a maid than as a bride . ' In the same way Moses thought : ' It were better for the ...
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... better off dying in Egypt or in the wilderness than in Canaan . It sounds as though the people feel that each place they leave would have been a better place to die than the next one , which they have not reached . The truth is out . It ...
... better off dying in Egypt or in the wilderness than in Canaan . It sounds as though the people feel that each place they leave would have been a better place to die than the next one , which they have not reached . The truth is out . It ...
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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