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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...

but females and males no longer useful for reproduction were regularly culled and sold for meat as well. Jacob’s deception of Esau featured a quickly prepared meal of goat, disguised as hunted game (Gen. 27:9ff.). Animal skins were useful containers for wine and water and served as butter churns. Skins became clothing (Gen. 3:1), rugs and other kinds of coverings (Exod. 26:14). The skins of sheep were utilized as inflatable rafts as early as the Neo-Assyrians in the ninth century BC (Borowski 1998:
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