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The French commentator Rashi gives us Rabbi Isaac's social explanation . It is “ in order that He might give them the heritage of the nations . For should the peoples of the world say to Israel , ' You are robbers , because you took by ...
The French commentator Rashi gives us Rabbi Isaac's social explanation . It is “ in order that He might give them the heritage of the nations . For should the peoples of the world say to Israel , ' You are robbers , because you took by ...
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What is in dispute is not the evidence but how to interpret the import that the spies give to their findings . Facts cannot speak for themselves ; it takes people with theories to order data , which can then informatively relate to the ...
What is in dispute is not the evidence but how to interpret the import that the spies give to their findings . Facts cannot speak for themselves ; it takes people with theories to order data , which can then informatively relate to the ...
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As the classical scholars , from Sir Henry Maine to Max Weber , 44 who studied traditional societies , maintained , obligations are reciprocal : the rules and statutes that enable the top to give orders down the line also , by virtue of ...
As the classical scholars , from Sir Henry Maine to Max Weber , 44 who studied traditional societies , maintained , obligations are reciprocal : the rules and statutes that enable the top to give orders down the line also , by virtue of ...
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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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