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14 What more could a social scientist ask ? This book on leadership , which is designed to convey the Mosaic teaching in a general form , is intendedly scientific and therefore subject to the charge that it is more Greek than Hebrew .
14 What more could a social scientist ask ? This book on leadership , which is designed to convey the Mosaic teaching in a general form , is intendedly scientific and therefore subject to the charge that it is more Greek than Hebrew .
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In rabbinic terms , however , the Torah is not a rationalization of social relations : it is the real thing , a didactic dictation of the social relations themselves . If the terms " desired social relations " and " Torah " are ...
In rabbinic terms , however , the Torah is not a rationalization of social relations : it is the real thing , a didactic dictation of the social relations themselves . If the terms " desired social relations " and " Torah " are ...
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On the contrary , for those who follow them , they constitute social life itself . Therefore the commandments are , like all living things , forms of bias — the social counterparts to the political regimes upon which I have focused the ...
On the contrary , for those who follow them , they constitute social life itself . Therefore the commandments are , like all living things , forms of bias — the social counterparts to the political regimes upon which I have focused the ...
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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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