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2 Combining the meaning of both accounts , we see several tests of leadership established — God tests the people's willingness to be led , to overcome adversity in order to take the land promised them ; the people test both the promise ...
2 Combining the meaning of both accounts , we see several tests of leadership established — God tests the people's willingness to be led , to overcome adversity in order to take the land promised them ; the people test both the promise ...
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Isaac is the people and the promise . If Isaac dies , the people of the future die with him , unbom , for he is Abraham's " sole heir , ' ' 58 the only link between Abraham and posterity . “ Isaac is the child of the promise , ” writes ...
Isaac is the people and the promise . If Isaac dies , the people of the future die with him , unbom , for he is Abraham's " sole heir , ' ' 58 the only link between Abraham and posterity . “ Isaac is the child of the promise , ” writes ...
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On Mount Sinai , Moses sets his faith in God against God's promise to the people of Israel ... It is the same choice he makes after the people refuse to take the Promised Land ; the spies may fail their test , but Moses does not .
On Mount Sinai , Moses sets his faith in God against God's promise to the people of Israel ... It is the same choice he makes after the people refuse to take the Promised Land ; the spies may fail their test , but Moses does not .
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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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