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is being warned to leave Egypt morally as well as physically , lest it share the same fate . Spoiling and Separation Though Israel is expelled from Egypt , the people do not leave emptyhanded . Nor does Israel amass goods by accident or ...
is being warned to leave Egypt morally as well as physically , lest it share the same fate . Spoiling and Separation Though Israel is expelled from Egypt , the people do not leave emptyhanded . Nor does Israel amass goods by accident or ...
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The failure of anarchy would leave the people defenseless against a return to slavery ; order would have to be reimposed from the outside . The success of anarchy would leave the people divided , forming and reforming different ...
The failure of anarchy would leave the people defenseless against a return to slavery ; order would have to be reimposed from the outside . The success of anarchy would leave the people divided , forming and reforming different ...
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... as I have by relating Moses to Joseph , Jacob , Aaron , and Abraham ; each speaks to Moses in some , but not all , of the contexts in which we find him . Should we conclude , then , that Moses is incomparable and leave it at that ?
... as I have by relating Moses to Joseph , Jacob , Aaron , and Abraham ; each speaks to Moses in some , but not all , of the contexts in which we find him . Should we conclude , then , that Moses is incomparable and leave it at that ?
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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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