The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political LeaderUniversity of Alabama Press, 1984 - 262 pages |
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Page 85
... live without faith , but they were not yet ready to live on it . Yet there was no punishment , only an injunction to preserve a jar of manna that future generations might see how the Lord fed the people in the wilderness . One moral was ...
... live without faith , but they were not yet ready to live on it . Yet there was no punishment , only an injunction to preserve a jar of manna that future generations might see how the Lord fed the people in the wilderness . One moral was ...
Page 125
... live among men that is being tested . The process is one of mutual adaptation between what is and what ought to be . On Mount Sinai , Moses sets his faith in God against God's promise to the people of Israel . If God means to destroy ...
... live among men that is being tested . The process is one of mutual adaptation between what is and what ought to be . On Mount Sinai , Moses sets his faith in God against God's promise to the people of Israel . If God means to destroy ...
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... live accords well with their character , for it is impossible to live among Nuer and conceive of rulers ruling over them . " The Nuer is a product of hard and egalitarian upbringing , is deeply demo- cratic , and is easily roused to ...
... live accords well with their character , for it is impossible to live among Nuer and conceive of rulers ruling over them . " The Nuer is a product of hard and egalitarian upbringing , is deeply demo- cratic , and is easily roused to ...
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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