The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political LeaderUniversity of Alabama Press, 1984 - 262 pages |
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Page 59
... desert , 62 Pharaoh retaliates by increasing the burdens of the Hebrew people ; they will have to make the same number of bricks but without straw . The people complain that this privation does them no good . Moses does not urge faith ...
... desert , 62 Pharaoh retaliates by increasing the burdens of the Hebrew people ; they will have to make the same number of bricks but without straw . The people complain that this privation does them no good . Moses does not urge faith ...
Page 125
... desert are preeminently a time of testing . Why do prophets and psalmists , instead of condemning outright the people's faithlessness and failure , speak of the wanderings as a time of romance , in which the first love between God and ...
... desert are preeminently a time of testing . Why do prophets and psalmists , instead of condemning outright the people's faithlessness and failure , speak of the wanderings as a time of romance , in which the first love between God and ...
Page 223
... desert period . The next day the manna they had eaten in the desert was to cease , and the people " did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year " ( Josh . 5:12 ) . New life , new land , new food . The food of dependence gives ...
... desert period . The next day the manna they had eaten in the desert was to cease , and the people " did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year " ( Josh . 5:12 ) . New life , new land , new food . The food of dependence gives ...
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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