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These " ideal types , " as Max Weber called them ( or “ extreme representations , " as I do , to avoid suggesting desirability ) range widely across experience . They vary from total equality to extreme regimentation and from groups ...
These " ideal types , " as Max Weber called them ( or “ extreme representations , " as I do , to avoid suggesting desirability ) range widely across experience . They vary from total equality to extreme regimentation and from groups ...
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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face , and my life is preserved . ( Gen. 32 : 24–30 ] Clearly , the change of name — from Jacob to Israel , from “ supplanter ” to he who has met God and man ...
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face , and my life is preserved . ( Gen. 32 : 24–30 ] Clearly , the change of name — from Jacob to Israel , from “ supplanter ” to he who has met God and man ...
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But again Pharaoh reneges ; and , after the devouring locusts , " Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste ; and he said , I have sinned against the Lord your God , and against you . Now therefore forgive , I pray thee , my sin ...
But again Pharaoh reneges ; and , after the devouring locusts , " Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste ; and he said , I have sinned against the Lord your God , and against you . Now therefore forgive , I pray thee , my sin ...
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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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