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Moses ' experience reveals the dilemmas of leadership under the major types of rule , from slavery in Egypt to anarchy before the Golden Calf episode to equity ( association without authority ) in the desert , until his final effort ...
Moses ' experience reveals the dilemmas of leadership under the major types of rule , from slavery in Egypt to anarchy before the Golden Calf episode to equity ( association without authority ) in the desert , until his final effort ...
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The “ lack of localization , ” Martin Noth notes about the episode of Dathan and Abiram , which yields no clue as to where it occurred , expresses the ubiquity of the phenomenon . Do not the Levites themselves try to take over Aaron's ...
The “ lack of localization , ” Martin Noth notes about the episode of Dathan and Abiram , which yields no clue as to where it occurred , expresses the ubiquity of the phenomenon . Do not the Levites themselves try to take over Aaron's ...
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... denied Promised Land , 110 , 162 ; at Mount Sinai , 99 , 106–12 ; passivity of , 107 , 109–10 , 112 , 144 ; priesthood of , 108 , 141 , 144 ; as representative leader , 107 , 186 ; rod of , 141 ; role in Golden Calf episode , 99–100 ...
... denied Promised Land , 110 , 162 ; at Mount Sinai , 99 , 106–12 ; passivity of , 107 , 109–10 , 112 , 144 ; priesthood of , 108 , 141 , 144 ; as representative leader , 107 , 186 ; rod of , 141 ; role in Golden Calf episode , 99–100 ...
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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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