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“ But knew they the punishment , the death of the idolater , that Thy hand wrote in Thy Torah after ? Thou didst spare Cain , because he killed , not knowing the punishment for killing , and Thou wouldst punish them by a law that they ...
“ But knew they the punishment , the death of the idolater , that Thy hand wrote in Thy Torah after ? Thou didst spare Cain , because he killed , not knowing the punishment for killing , and Thou wouldst punish them by a law that they ...
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In the sense that divine criteria forged the law , it can be said that Moses carries out a divine punishment . The fact that God's wrath continues means , however , that concurrent human action ( Moses ' ) cannot substitute for divine ...
In the sense that divine criteria forged the law , it can be said that Moses carries out a divine punishment . The fact that God's wrath continues means , however , that concurrent human action ( Moses ' ) cannot substitute for divine ...
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Yet instead of carrying out the prescribed punishment , the entire congregation , including Aaron and Moses , " put him in ward , because it was not declared what should be done to him ” ( Num . 15:34 ) . It has been suggested , notably ...
Yet instead of carrying out the prescribed punishment , the entire congregation , including Aaron and Moses , " put him in ward , because it was not declared what should be done to him ” ( Num . 15:34 ) . It has been suggested , notably ...
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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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