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The fact that God's wrath continues means , however , that concurrent human action ( Moses ' ) cannot substitute for divine ... the people survive , the covenant is renewed , sin is individualized so that the community can continue .
The fact that God's wrath continues means , however , that concurrent human action ( Moses ' ) cannot substitute for divine ... the people survive , the covenant is renewed , sin is individualized so that the community can continue .
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The leaders of Israel signify by this submission that they are helpless , that the action of the people in returning to slavery in Egypt is beyond their help , but yet that they continue ...
The leaders of Israel signify by this submission that they are helpless , that the action of the people in returning to slavery in Egypt is beyond their help , but yet that they continue ...
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The final events in Moses ' life suggest that he who teaches must continue to learn . Meribah , as we have seen , represents Moses ' own supreme moment of forgetfulness . Backsliding even more than the people , Moses ...
The final events in Moses ' life suggest that he who teaches must continue to learn . Meribah , as we have seen , represents Moses ' own supreme moment of forgetfulness . Backsliding even more than the people , Moses ...
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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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