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how best to go into the new land . Moses is pleased at this commendable commitment , suggesting the initiative and prudence appropriate to a people able to govern themselves . " 2 Combining the meaning of both accounts , we see several ...
how best to go into the new land . Moses is pleased at this commendable commitment , suggesting the initiative and prudence appropriate to a people able to govern themselves . " 2 Combining the meaning of both accounts , we see several ...
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When we first meet Moses , he is taken out of the waters of chaos into the order of land . He leads his people out of the watery womb of Egypt into the dry desert . The wall of water in the Sea of Reeds — water only temporarily held ...
When we first meet Moses , he is taken out of the waters of chaos into the order of land . He leads his people out of the watery womb of Egypt into the dry desert . The wall of water in the Sea of Reeds — water only temporarily held ...
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into the Book Why Moses Does Not Get to the Promised Land 2 ) . ) ) ) “ If I must not lead them as Prophet into the Land of Promise , let me enter in as the disciple of another . ” “ Thou shalt not enter it .
into the Book Why Moses Does Not Get to the Promised Land 2 ) . ) ) ) “ If I must not lead them as Prophet into the Land of Promise , let me enter in as the disciple of another . ” “ Thou shalt not enter it .
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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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