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Exodus also provides a model for understanding the nature of leadership of a chosen or oppressed people. The only British Puritan ever to serve as the English head of state, the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, even went so far as drawn a parallel between his own prophetic positions to the status of Moses, using it as evidence of his humility even while he ruled as an autocrat, as a Moses speaking with the voice of God. But while Moses understood that the march through the wilderness does not lie beyond history[that] the leader [himself] was only a manand a limited man at that, Cromwell like so many leaders afterwards often confused his own view of his people as Israelites as a justification for his own autocratic rule (Walzer 17). He rationalized: Hadn't the Israelites provoked and enraged the God who elected themthrough unbelief, murmuring, repining, and other temptations and sins and it was Moses who must bring them to righteousness, acting as an instrument of God (Walzer 64)

In other words, Cromwell saw both the hope and promise of the Exodus, but also could find within its narrative a justification for his own sense of superiority against those whom

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