The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader

262 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership?; I. Slavery: Passive People, Passive Leader; II. From Slavery to Anarchy: Learning from Pharaoh What Not To Do; III. From Anarchy to Equity: Leadership in the Golden Calf, the Spies, and the Akedah; IV. From Equity to Hierarchy: The Institutionalization of Leadership; V. The Leader Disappears into the Book: Why Moses Does Not Get to the Promised Land; Conclusion: Leadership as a Function of Regime; Appendix: Equity Versus Hierarchy: A Speculation on the Survival of the Jewish People; Notes; Index.