The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political LeaderUniversity of Alabama Press, 1984 - 262 pages |
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... 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 . Am I , indeed ...
... 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 . Am I , indeed ...
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... social products , serve the same function of justifying social relations . In rabbinic terms , how- ever , the Torah is not a rationalization of social relations : it is the real thing , a didactic dictation of the social relations ...
... social products , serve the same function of justifying social relations . In rabbinic terms , how- ever , the Torah is not a rationalization of social relations : it is the real thing , a didactic dictation of the social relations ...
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... social life . 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 ...
... social life . 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 ...
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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