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  • Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations ...
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  • binding texts in classical rabbinic literature, which are primarily of ... ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's ...
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  • ==Banshees in literature and popular culture== When the oral narratives were first translated into English, a distinction ...
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  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum ... This article discusses rabbinic literature in both senses. It begins ...
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  • the most perfect short novels in world literature." ... Many see Hrafnkels saga as a prime example of accurately preserved ...
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  • Hashanah. Karaite Jews, who do not recognize Jewish oral law and rely solely on Biblical authority, observe only one day on the first of Tishrei. ...
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  • With respect to literature, Bede is known primarily for two reasons ... scripture. He was proficient in Church literature as well as the classics ...
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  • by an unknown author from a collection of oral stories composed and recited ... The story of the Heike Monogatari was compiled from a collection of ...
    10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
  • Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations ...
    37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
  • *Belief that there is also an Oral Law, the authoritative interpretation ... believing that both the Written Law and the Oral Torah must not be rejected ...
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  • about specific gods. In Hindu religious literature, the designation "Purana ... date to an earlier period, deriving from oral tradition. ...
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  • Guanzhong, which incorporated material from oral legends, Tang poetry, and ... material in Sanguo Zhi Zhu, together with oral legends and material from ...
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  • and these verse forms comprise a familiar oral tradition. A ballad usually ... the ballad served to carry on a living oral tradition. As a vehicle of ...
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  • Conquest of 1066. Almost all of the literature of this period was orally ... all of these texts can be fairly called literature, but those that can present ...
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  • occasions and events. See "Pali oral literature," in Buddhist Studies ... the monks responsible for recording the oral tradition felt that there ...
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  • various sources employed include folk literature, inscriptions, historical ... became the fountainhead of the Vachana literature used as the vector to propagate ...
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  • law, as found in the Pentateuch, and oral law, encompassing the entire ... or as direct dictation together with the Oral Torah. Rabbinic writings ...
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  • that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known examples ... These songs originated in the (largely pagan) oral tradition that ...
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  • attendance, while teaching a concept of an Oral Torah as well as a written ... what became known as Judaism's "Oral Law. This was eventually encoded ...
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  • including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, superstitions ... separate perspectives. Scholars of literature focus primarily on structure ...
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  • as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmud ... === Karaites and the Mishnah (Oral Law) === Solomon ben Jeroham (Salmon ...
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