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Just as theories are part of our conception of the physical world , so the varied interpretations of the Bible are part of the meaning , which has to be in us as well as in the text ... No interpretation is unqualifiedly correct .
Just as theories are part of our conception of the physical world , so the varied interpretations of the Bible are part of the meaning , which has to be in us as well as in the text ... No interpretation is unqualifiedly correct .
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Once a literal interpretation is eschewed , it is a small step to view the entire episode as a hallucinatory vision , in which asses speak and ordinary logic no longer need apply . Apparent contradictions are dissolved by treating them ...
Once a literal interpretation is eschewed , it is a small step to view the entire episode as a hallucinatory vision , in which asses speak and ordinary logic no longer need apply . Apparent contradictions are dissolved by treating them ...
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25 As a Christian conception , this interpretation has merit ; as a Jewish view , certainly in the Torah , it does not . Jews may be expected to suffer , to undergo privation , to take their chances , but not directly to do themselves ...
25 As a Christian conception , this interpretation has merit ; as a Jewish view , certainly in the Torah , it does not . Jews may be expected to suffer , to undergo privation , to take their chances , but not directly to do themselves ...
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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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