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Shepherds after My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions and Leadership in the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding” (Jeremiah 3:15). Most of Israel’s pastoral imagery is grounded in two traditions: Moses as God’s under-shepherd and David as shepherd-king. Timothy S. Laniak explains these traditions provided prototypes for leaders that followed. He forms the background for the ministry of Jesus, the good...

At a time when books on leadership are being published at a dizzying pace, one wonders if the Bible has anything to say about it. While the Bible does say a lot about the topic, there has been no survey like the one you are about to read. One of the primary metaphors by which biblical authors conceptualized leadership is shepherding. This is quite consistent throughout Old and New Testaments. Yet no exegetical resource orients the culturally removed contemporary ‘pastor’ to this wealth
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