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He simultaneously seeks to shore up leadership against endless attack and to guard the people against its excesses . Chapter 5 will show how — by not going to the land promised to him and his people — Moses exemplifies the greatest ...
He simultaneously seeks to shore up leadership against endless attack and to guard the people against its excesses . Chapter 5 will show how — by not going to the land promised to him and his people — Moses exemplifies the greatest ...
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In this dialogue , Moses says , " Lord , Thou sendest me unto Thine enemies : they have sought my life ; they seek it yet . " And God answers the only possible way for would - be leaders : “ He with whom I go , My Fear goeth with him .
In this dialogue , Moses says , " Lord , Thou sendest me unto Thine enemies : they have sought my life ; they seek it yet . " And God answers the only possible way for would - be leaders : “ He with whom I go , My Fear goeth with him .
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He seeks to rise above the battle , substituting a holistic vision for the partial picture of the combatants in the social struggle . But he does not succeed in seeing the face of God , who alone is holy . For Moses , the land remains a ...
He seeks to rise above the battle , substituting a holistic vision for the partial picture of the combatants in the social struggle . But he does not succeed in seeing the face of God , who alone is holy . For Moses , the land remains a ...
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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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