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Moses as Political Leader
Aaron Wildabsky
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Description for Moses as Political Leader
Paperback. Illuminates the Jewish past and the enduring political questions of how to build and preserve a decent, righteous, and stable community. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 290 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
In this book Wildavsky takes Moses, and the reader, through a sequence of political experiences: Through the biblical text, we experience unrestricted monarchy (in Egypt), anarchy (in the wilderness prior to the giving of the law), and an egalitarian republic-in which Moses is little more than the first among equals. At each step, there are evident reasons that Moses, as political leader, cannot continue under the burden of the precedeeding regime, so that we are led to the conclusion that he has no choice but to adopt the, hierarchical arrangement of the rule of Moses as balanced by the assembly ... Read more
In this book Wildavsky takes Moses, and the reader, through a sequence of political experiences: Through the biblical text, we experience unrestricted monarchy (in Egypt), anarchy (in the wilderness prior to the giving of the law), and an egalitarian republic-in which Moses is little more than the first among equals. At each step, there are evident reasons that Moses, as political leader, cannot continue under the burden of the precedeeding regime, so that we are led to the conclusion that he has no choice but to adopt the, hierarchical arrangement of the rule of Moses as balanced by the assembly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Shalem Press Israel
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Jerusalem, Israel
ISBN
9789657052310
SKU
V9789657052310
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99-15
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