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should be stressed , offering to substitute for his people but rather to share their destiny . Having broken Holy Writ , “ he joins his sin to the people's apostasy . In the sense that divine criteria forged the law , it can be said ...
should be stressed , offering to substitute for his people but rather to share their destiny . Having broken Holy Writ , “ he joins his sin to the people's apostasy . In the sense that divine criteria forged the law , it can be said ...
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When Isaac understandably asks , " but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ? " the father replies , “ My son , God will provide ” ( Gen. 22 : 7–8 ) . Abraham builds an altar , places the wood on it , binds Isaac to both , " and took ...
When Isaac understandably asks , " but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ? " the father replies , “ My son , God will provide ” ( Gen. 22 : 7–8 ) . Abraham builds an altar , places the wood on it , binds Isaac to both , " and took ...
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The laws offer precise prescriptions for individual observance , but they are too specific to cover the broader issues of leadership . Without learning , the Law and the Commandments remain but dead letters . Leading as Learning a The ...
The laws offer precise prescriptions for individual observance , but they are too specific to cover the broader issues of leadership . Without learning , the Law and the Commandments remain but dead letters . Leading as Learning a The ...
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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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