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To settle the matter that these principles come from God and not from a man called Moses , he calls on Korah and his company to burn incense before the Lord so that God may choose among the factions . Equality in belief is a principle ...
To settle the matter that these principles come from God and not from a man called Moses , he calls on Korah and his company to burn incense before the Lord so that God may choose among the factions . Equality in belief is a principle ...
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He must both restrain himself and be restrained by the higher principles that God offers — keeping himself out of ( as ... substantial and the attacks on the leadership principle so ubiquitous that only the most determined can survive .
He must both restrain himself and be restrained by the higher principles that God offers — keeping himself out of ( as ... substantial and the attacks on the leadership principle so ubiquitous that only the most determined can survive .
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Hypocrisy in Hierarchy Samuel's ambivalence about kingship — he is against it in principle but will allow it in practice — is most Mosaic . “ Ye have this day rejected your God , ” he cries ( 1 Sam . 10:19 ) .
Hypocrisy in Hierarchy Samuel's ambivalence about kingship — he is against it in principle but will allow it in practice — is most Mosaic . “ Ye have this day rejected your God , ” he cries ( 1 Sam . 10:19 ) .
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
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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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