Importance of the Oral Tradition Before the gospels were composed, Jesus' first followers sustained his memory by sharing stories of his life, death and teachings. L. Michael White: ...

We have two volumes containing examples of these Scottish songs in our rare book collection at Queen Mary. Social Media . From Aesop and Homer oral traditions took a leap forward in the late twentieth ...

A relative of mine got involved in the history of a Stone Age tribe in New Guineau. They gave a detailed account of an encounter with an European ship back in the 18th century. After some library ...

In the examples presented here we see how poet J P Clark exhibits a strong influence from oral traditions and oral literature. We also see another example of a poetic trend found in both oral and ...

Originally oral Jewish traditions cited Hosea 6:6 and taught that helping people was of greater importance than observing rituals and customs (Sukkah 49b, Deuteronomy Rabbah on 16:18, etc.).

In an oral Muslim tradition called hifz, a 12-year-old Charlotte boy recently completed the memorization of all 6,200 verses and 77,000 words in the Quran. Only one or two people from Charlotte ...

Preface: oral history and oral traditions / Stephen J. Augustine -- Introduction: a layering of voices: Aboriginal oral traditions / Renee Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod -- The assault on Aboriginal oral ...

According to Jewish tradition, the distinction between Written Torah and Oral Torah is sacred. What is written may not be transmitted orally and what is oral may not be written down.

Using the Telugu-speaking areas as a historical site, this paper tracks the anti-caste epistemology articulated by Dalits for centuries in the forms of oral and folk traditions. With the dawn of ...