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As with any fundamental text , what the Bible is depends partly on what it contains and partly on what each generation makes of it . Just as theories are part of our conception of the physical world , so the varied interpretations of ...
As with any fundamental text , what the Bible is depends partly on what it contains and partly on what each generation makes of it . Just as theories are part of our conception of the physical world , so the varied interpretations of ...
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32 What we learn depends on what questions we ask . For Jews , only Moses , through the Torah , can provide authoritative religious instruction . But this is not a book about religion , except insofar as it is necessary to illuminate ...
32 What we learn depends on what questions we ask . For Jews , only Moses , through the Torah , can provide authoritative religious instruction . But this is not a book about religion , except insofar as it is necessary to illuminate ...
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Thus working today to benefit tomorrow depends on trust that other people will remember their obligations . There is a name for the reproduction of patterns of reciprocal obligations , and it is " institution .
Thus working today to benefit tomorrow depends on trust that other people will remember their obligations . There is a name for the reproduction of patterns of reciprocal obligations , and it is " institution .
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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