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These three episodes help suggest why God would select Moses for his grandiose mission : high ideals and moral courage ... over both shoulders , Moses slays and then hastily buries the Egyptian suggests that he lacks legal authority .
These three episodes help suggest why God would select Moses for his grandiose mission : high ideals and moral courage ... over both shoulders , Moses slays and then hastily buries the Egyptian suggests that he lacks legal authority .
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None , unless , of course , as Alter suggests , they did not want to do so . It is not , I suggest , the author ( singular ) but cultures ( plural ) that are in conflict . The sects that form a regime of equity are not only a religious ...
None , unless , of course , as Alter suggests , they did not want to do so . It is not , I suggest , the author ( singular ) but cultures ( plural ) that are in conflict . The sects that form a regime of equity are not only a religious ...
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Even more important is its evocative character , the associations it suggests . ... playing a feminine as well as a masculine role , suggesting both the completeness to which the leader aspires and the impossibility of being all things ...
Even more important is its evocative character , the associations it suggests . ... playing a feminine as well as a masculine role , suggesting both the completeness to which the leader aspires and the impossibility of being all things ...
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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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