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substitute for faith , either for the Hebrews or for Moses . Is this excusemaking or a demand for yet more palpable signs ? God interprets it as the latter . But God's concession of more visible proof for the skeptical is a compromise ...
substitute for faith , either for the Hebrews or for Moses . Is this excusemaking or a demand for yet more palpable signs ? God interprets it as the latter . But God's concession of more visible proof for the skeptical is a compromise ...
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Rocks are constantly used to symbolize bastions of faith , as when Psalm 89:26 speaks of God as " the rock of my salvation . " We might think God was wildly waving His arms , trying to gain attention , indicating , as Moses first did at ...
Rocks are constantly used to symbolize bastions of faith , as when Psalm 89:26 speaks of God as " the rock of my salvation . " We might think God was wildly waving His arms , trying to gain attention , indicating , as Moses first did at ...
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... learn how far we must go in the fear of God.51 53 To take a modern affirmation , Speiser concludes that the purpose of Abraham's " ordeal , then , was to discover how firm was the patriarch's faith in the ultimate divine purpose .
... learn how far we must go in the fear of God.51 53 To take a modern affirmation , Speiser concludes that the purpose of Abraham's " ordeal , then , was to discover how firm was the patriarch's faith in the ultimate divine purpose .
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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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