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If God is good , the question is , how does evil come into the world ? Genesis , Nahum Sarna tells us , " wishes to indicate very simply that evil is a human product , that God created the world good but that man , through the free ...
If God is good , the question is , how does evil come into the world ? Genesis , Nahum Sarna tells us , " wishes to indicate very simply that evil is a human product , that God created the world good but that man , through the free ...
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Instead of letting Moses in on the secret of good and evil , the Lord responds " I ... will be gracious to whom I will be gracious , and will show mercy ...
Instead of letting Moses in on the secret of good and evil , the Lord responds " I ... will be gracious to whom I will be gracious , and will show mercy ...
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Even if Aaron has not instigated the evil , he who orders the gold collected and shapes the Calf certainly is an accomplice . So the question of leadership is whether leaders are obliged to head off , or put an end to , an evil act ...
Even if Aaron has not instigated the evil , he who orders the gold collected and shapes the Calf certainly is an accomplice . So the question of leadership is whether leaders are obliged to head off , or put an end to , an evil act ...
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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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