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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 ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
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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 ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- ==Banshees in literature and popular culture== When the oral narratives were first translated into English, a distinction ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 07:29, 20 September 2023
- Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum ... This article discusses rabbinic literature in both senses. It begins ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- the most perfect short novels in world literature." ... Many see Hrafnkels saga as a prime example of accurately preserved ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- 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. ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- With respect to literature, Bede is known primarily for two reasons ... scripture. He was proficient in Church literature as well as the classics ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- about specific gods. In Hindu religious literature, the designation "Purana ... date to an earlier period, deriving from oral tradition. ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- Guanzhong, which incorporated material from oral legends, Tang poetry, and ... material in Sanguo Zhi Zhu, together with oral legends and material from ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- occasions and events. See "Pali oral literature," in Buddhist Studies ... the monks responsible for recording the oral tradition felt that there ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- various sources employed include folk literature, inscriptions, historical ... became the fountainhead of the Vachana literature used as the vector to propagate ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- law, as found in the Pentateuch, and oral law, encompassing the entire ... or as direct dictation together with the Oral Torah. Rabbinic writings ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known examples ... These songs originated in the (largely pagan) oral tradition that ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- 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 ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, superstitions ... separate perspectives. Scholars of literature focus primarily on structure ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmud ... === Karaites and the Mishnah (Oral Law) === Solomon ben Jeroham (Salmon ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- Although they have their own supplemental oral and scriptural tradition, ... * Anderson, Robert T., and Terry Giles. Tradition Kept: The Literature ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- the Celtic Revival in British literature. Often considered to be ... city, where his father taught English Literature. It was in the school& ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- myths, legends, and oral histories. Their oral literature reflects the transitional position of Atsugewi culture between central California, Northwest ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- starting point of Japanese culture and literature. The poems date from between ... (in Yakamochi's time) of Chinese literature and poetics. Certainly ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- history, Homer's influence on literature has been unequalled, and ... and the poems were passed on for decades by oral tradition before being committed ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- law and is much quoted in other Jewish literature. first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Buddhism. Today, the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Republic of China ... proverbs from traditional Tibetan folk literature. Some Tibetan proverbs ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- in history. Although knowledge of the literature of Caedmon's time ... as formulaic poet." In Oral literature: Seven essays. Ed. J ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- texts, Rus-Byzantine treaties, and the oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich ... a prime example of the Old East Slavonic literature. No original copies remain; ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, ... by its colorful local bias. Stories and oral epics glorify local heroes ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- is also a notable figure in Pan-African literature, as his Interesting Narrative ... a major figure both in the politics and literature of the Middle Passage. ...10 KB (1,546 words) - 00:02, 18 November 2022
- the Yasuda Library, which contained rare literature and Kabuki and Noh books ... Zeami's Atsumori at World Literature Website] Category:Art, music ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- writers and scholars to investigate Native oral and written literary history ... were constructing a distinct national literature. The inclusion of two of ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- Cousins, "Pali oral literature," 7 == Origins and Tradition== ... * Cousins, Lance, "Pali oral literature," in Buddhist Studies ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 17:41, 2 May 2023
- cover all genres, from self-help to literature and relaxation. Some have ... drove the length of North America to record oral histories of Native American ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- verse are those found in the oldest literature of many Germanic languages ... of the earliest monuments of Germanic literature. The Golden horns of Gallehus ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- legends, tales, and oral histories. Serrano oral literature is closely linked with the traditions of the Serrano's closest linguistic relatives ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- music and lyrics for the song. In a 1984 oral history interview, he recalled ... Interviewed by the Oral History Department in 1989, Dr. Toh Chin Chye ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- == Forms of midrashic literature == Both halakhic and aggadic midrashim ... source, but are believed to be part of the Oral Law revealed to Moses at Sinai ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- considered to be scripture. Furthermore, oral traditions, such as the Oral ... need not necessarily be unified works of literature. At times they are collections ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- to examine the religious beliefs and oral traditions of African peoples ... Much of the literature about African philosophy is taken up with a ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian ... a dark age in the nation's literature, though Norwegian-born ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- Perrault published several tales from the oral tradition that he modified ... French language, dealing with children's literature. ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- B.C.E.). However, based as it is on older oral traditions, its antecedents ... One of the most influential Sanskrit contributions to world literature ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- focal point of eighteenth-century English literature. authors of non-fiction in all of English literature. ==Life== ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- motifs (the Nibelungensaga), which include oral traditions and reports based ... quot;original" version, likely because oral tradition had a continuing ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ... In view of the long period of oral tradition during which the ambush ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... too, have the foci of African American literature. Before the American Civil ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- by UNESCO as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible heritage of ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 132851706 ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- phase of the higher examination should be oral or written became a hot topic ... of which the successful applicants came, an oral examination tested the applicants ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- However, his lasting contribution to Russian literature was the trilogy of historical dramas, modeled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov. His best achievement ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ... to receive praise as a great work of literature comparable to the classical ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ==Early life== ... which the poems are set and some Fenian literature common in both countries ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés ... From around the 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- of several non-Jewish tribes. Rabbinical literature holds that he was the first ... of the law, which are called the Oral Torah, were originally unwritten ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ... Finnish folk poetry had long existed in the oral tradition and had ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- of any religion still in use. Since an oral Vedic tradition continued ... still in use. Most Indologists agree that an oral tradition existed ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- veracity; rather, like imaginative literature, myths present abstract ... becomes "the story" (preliterate oral traditions may vanish as the ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- preserved by the Yurok people. Their oral literature, together with the similar narratives of the Karuk and Hupa, constitutes a distinctive variant ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- .Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami. Readings in Vedic Literature: The Tradition ... ]], of the Vedic literature." ===Historical background=== ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- texts that give us knowledge of this oral tradition. The vast majority ... also remains as an inspiration in modern literature, as well as for other forms ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- designated wayang kulit as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. A portion of the work ... behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and conclusions ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- of the most important poets in Icelandic literature. He is known today as the ... much of the traditions of Icelandic culture and literature. ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- Fairy tales are found in oral folktale and in literary form. The history ... example of "quickness" in literature, because of the economy ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish language ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- or Babylonian influences on some of the literature of the Old Testament, and ... * Tradition history—studies biblical literature in terms of the ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- the entire chain of Jewish tradition (as in Oral law), but in reference to ... are sometimes referred to in rabbinical literature as "simaniyot," ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- and distant. Aristotle argued that literature is more interesting as ... Thus, when one reads about Proust's oral emotions reminding him of ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- pericopes as being generated out of the oral transmission of the early ... *Kelber, Werner. The Oral and Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- that has been passed down for centuries in oral or written form. There are ... myths continued to be transmitted through oral traditions such as theater ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- usually undergo a cumulative written and oral examination called the Abitur ... the Ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. Ministry of Education ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- many have become famous pieces of Arabic literature in their own right. Notable ... who claimed to have heard them in oral form from a Maronite story ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- to have happened, rather than on an oral tradition passed on by eye ... no. 1.) Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. ISBN 9781589832749 ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- that their positions described in later literature were meant as rhetorical ... including the Pharisaic tenet of an Oral Torah. The Sadducees interpreted ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- written document. If Q were merely a shared oral tradition, it could not account ... a Juggernaut," Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (1996): 667-681. ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- Literature in Burkina Faso is based on the oral tradition, which remains important. In 1934, during French occupation, Dim-Dolobsom Ouedraogo ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- * Oral sources: To what extent did each evangelist or literary collaborator ... draw from personal knowledge, eyewitness accounts, liturgy, or other ...41 KB (5,932 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2024
- in 2005 by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... the Ly dynasty, including the Temple of Literature, One-pillar pagoda, and ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- be more ancient than most other biblical literature. While he remains an enigmatic ... * Olrik, Axel. Principles for Oral Narrative Research. Translated ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- Tlingit Oratory.” Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature. vol. 2. Seattle: University of Washington. 1990. * Emmons, George T., and Thornton, George ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- folklorists, readings of non-Western oral literature are, I suppose, about ... elders and the few people that recorded the oral stories that there is any ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- hours of schooling. French language and literature occupy the most time, four ... rests mainly on competitive written and oral exams, undertaken by students ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- such as Mombasa. Historically, Swahili literature first flowered in the northern ... forms, meanings: essays in African oral literature, 22-30. ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition (Norman, OK: University ... quot;real people." The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- with some notable exceptions, less as literature than as vehicles for its ... Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 22:22, 4 October 2022
- education in religious sciences, literature, and poetry. After the ... be determined by referring to a hadith (oral tradition) which had been ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Africa—with their rich tradition of oral storytelling, had an ear for ... things have written books about her and her literature. ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- tales, and up to the present day in modern literature. While many of ... The précieuses took up the oral tradition of such tales to write ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- its adat. These stories are derived from an oral history which was transmitted ... === Oral traditions and literature === [[Image:Minangkabau wedding ...38 KB (5,501 words) - 17:01, 21 December 2023
- Gillian. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 7619317252 ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... to be proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Bronchial asthma in the medical literature of Greek antiquity] J Asthma ... air pollution from newsprint and other literature such as junk mail leaflets ...39 KB (5,772 words) - 18:20, 19 August 2023
- the fact that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes ... *Humor: Fables are a didactic mode of literature; that is their primary ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- lasting legacy. Their patronage of Tamil literature and their zeal in building ... Chola Dynasty. Mention in ancient Tamil literature and in inscriptions provides ...44 KB (6,505 words) - 17:15, 10 December 2023
- initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition, though they ... influence on the culture, arts and literature of Western civilization ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- of these sources were informed by various oral traditions known to their authors. ... to law and judgment. Traditional Jewish literature cites this concept frequently. ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- goal of life. Most Indian philosophical literature is directed towards the ... took place during this period. The literature of this period, though ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- == Matriarchies in literature == The turn-of-the-century mythology ... #039;s historical revisions of Arthurian literature and the Trojan War; to ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- as with an echo") originally denoted oral transmission from teacher ... form of religious instruction, typically oral, and traditionally under the ...21 KB (3,269 words) - 17:53, 30 November 2023
