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Moses stands for accountability and responsibility , moving forward toward the unknown , fortified only by a promise , a covenant with the one God . The signs of this covenant in the Bible are three — the rainbow , the Sabbath ...
Moses stands for accountability and responsibility , moving forward toward the unknown , fortified only by a promise , a covenant with the one God . The signs of this covenant in the Bible are three — the rainbow , the Sabbath ...
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Teaching the people to take responsibility for themselves is Moses ' task . But , before that can happen , before superseding , more than succeeding , Joseph , Moses must first take responsibility for his own actions .
Teaching the people to take responsibility for themselves is Moses ' task . But , before that can happen , before superseding , more than succeeding , Joseph , Moses must first take responsibility for his own actions .
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Its theme , however , stands as a continual rejoinder to Moses ' own plea for divine solutions that would absolve him from responsibility . If leadership is supposed to vary with the regimes within which it is exercised , the very ...
Its theme , however , stands as a continual rejoinder to Moses ' own plea for divine solutions that would absolve him from responsibility . If leadership is supposed to vary with the regimes within which it is exercised , the very ...
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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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