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The Torah as a Teaching That the Torah is a teaching , Jewish sages have maintained throughout the ages . Whatever else they are , its tales are meant to instruct . But they are not all - inclusive . The basis for their selection is ...
The Torah as a Teaching That the Torah is a teaching , Jewish sages have maintained throughout the ages . Whatever else they are , its tales are meant to instruct . But they are not all - inclusive . The basis for their selection is ...
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By binding himself , Moses frees his people to act in history — to err , to learn , and to live with his teaching , but without his presence . Moses ' interrogation of his own experience as a leader and as a teacher leaves us with the ...
By binding himself , Moses frees his people to act in history — to err , to learn , and to live with his teaching , but without his presence . Moses ' interrogation of his own experience as a leader and as a teacher leaves us with the ...
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See also tion of , 171 ; as teaching , 17 , 165 , 168 , 179 ; Mount Sinai , Promised Land , Sea of as teaching on leadership , 20 , 182 , 202 , Reeds , Spies episode 223 " Seventy elders , ” 143–44 , 147 , 206 , 216 ; hier- Tower of ...
See also tion of , 171 ; as teaching , 17 , 165 , 168 , 179 ; Mount Sinai , Promised Land , Sea of as teaching on leadership , 20 , 182 , 202 , Reeds , Spies episode 223 " Seventy elders , ” 143–44 , 147 , 206 , 216 ; hier- Tower of ...
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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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