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  • #Torah (תורה) meaning "Instruction" or "Law." ... works, collectively known as "the oral law" [תורה שבעל ...
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  • 120 known Tannaim (teachers of the "Oral Torah") who lived in ... The Tannaim, as teachers of the Oral Law, were direct transmitters ...
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  • ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's Oral law (תורה שבעל ...
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  • *Belief that there is also an Oral Law, the authoritative interpretation ... Mount Sinai, that stretches, through the oral law, from the time of Moses ...
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  • teeth, gums, and adjacent structures of the oral cavity. This autonomous branch ... disorders and/or conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area ...
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  • A law library is a library designed to assist law students, attorneys ... tasks such as finding primary sources of law, or primary authority, in ...
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  • law, as found in the Pentateuch, and oral law, encompassing the entire ... it was forbidden to write and publish the oral law, as any writing would be ...
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  • Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmud) as halakha (legally binding, required religious practice). The ...
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  • Category:Law :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law ...
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  • 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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  • in 70 C.E., the Jewish teachers of the Law of Moses known as the Pharisees ... what became known as Judaism's "Oral Law. This was eventually encoded ...
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  • Category:Law Manslaughter is a criminal variation of homicide that ... The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability ...
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  • expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as well as ethical teachings ... * Safrai, Shemuel. 1987. The Literature of the Sages. First part Oral ...
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  • tradition, they also reject the oral law of the Jews, namely the ... important legal matters such as a Samaritan law requiring monogamy as opposed ...
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  • written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 ... ===Oral Law=== Rabbinical tradition holds that the Talmud expresses ...
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  • them a constitution known as the "Great Law of Peace" (Gayanashagowa ... the early 1800s, as he had learned it from oral tradition. A more complete ...
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  • Sámr competently prosecutes the case. The law finds Hrafnkell guilty, and ... Many see Hrafnkels saga as a prime example of accurately preserved ...
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  • in words shift over time (Grimm's Law). The Brothers Grimm collected ... nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve contemporary ...
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  • Category:Law legal systems in countries using common law. The brief is presented to ...
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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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  • than priestly elitism, a tradition of Oral Law in addition to the written ... Second, the Pharisees believed in an Oral Law as well as a Written ...
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  • quot; remained standard doctrine in U.S. law until its final repudiation ... most of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a law passed by the United States ...
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  • for in Christianity 'Love is the ultimate law’. Paul Tillich there are no absolute laws other than the law of Agapē love and all the ...
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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 ...
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  • for historians, as the prevalence of oral history in the area has clouded ... have had the same historical source. Robin Law, A West African Cavalry State: ...
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  • of 13 to the city's University to study law. Upon turning 19 he was sent ... year. On July 30, 1762, Boswell took his oral law exam, which he passed with ...
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  • that he had not acted in harmony with celestial law. Tengri is a probable ... Rafael Bezertinov, Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative [http://aton ...
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  • considered to be scripture. Furthermore, oral traditions, such as the Oral ... is made up of the Mishnah, the recorded oral law, and the Gemara, commentaries ...
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  • then, Judaism has focused on God's law, and no longer has an active ... laws, Judaism affirms a belief in the Oral Law as well. This law was conveyed ...
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  • with the nose and mouth; air enters the oral and nasal cavities, which ... opens into the oropharynx (behind the oral cavity). During inhalation ...
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  • including the Pharisaic tenet of an Oral Torah. The Sadducees interpreted ... with the festival of the giving of the Law, interpreted the "morrow ...
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  • as Singapore's national anthem. By law, the anthem may only be sung ... music and lyrics for the song. In a 1984 oral history interview, he recalled ...
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  • These commandments and laws are based on oral traditions as well as scriptural ... #Establish courts/legal system to ensure law and obedience. ...
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  • petitioned the government to remove the law against a custom that they ... * Cole, Douglas, and Chaikin, Ira. An Iron Hand upon the People: The ...
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  • of Mount Sinai. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, was a Kenite (Judges ... quot; Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering ...
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  • Category:Law or agreement between parties. Contract law is based on the Latin phrase ...
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  • # Men-ngak (Sanskrit upadesha), the series of secret Oral Instructions ... Hridaya Sūtra), that there is no karma, no law of cause and effect. The assertion ...
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  • career in government. Under Joseon law, children of officials of ... phase of the higher examination should be oral or written became a hot topic ...
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  • was seen as being in accordance with Jewish law, since she had been left childless ... as well as a belief that God's Oral Law could be expressed directly ...
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  • reign. The older Psalms thus depended on oral or hymnic tradition for transmission ... are believed to be written (rather than oral) compositions when they were ...
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  • the continuing centrality of Jewish law (halakha) in Jewish life, ... as circumstances dictated. Indeed, the Oral Law should not be viewed as ...
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  • , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... George Fletcher and Steve Sheppard, American Law in Global Perspective: The ...
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  • ketuvim, or writings), and rejected the Oral Law ( the Mishnah and the Talmud ... Rabbinic Jews considered the denial of divinely inspired Oral Law ...
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  • Sunni Muslims may follow one of several law schools, and may also identify ... had appointed Ali, his cousin and son-in-law as his successor. Later, Ali ...
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  • to the exegesis of biblically-related Jewish law. Jewish tradition allows a ... but are believed to be part of the Oral Law revealed to Moses at Sinai ...
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  • was owned by Jefferson's father-in-law, John Wayles, who died in ... Since slavery was illegal in France, under French law, both Sally ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela ... of one or both of the parties, such as oral copulation and masturbation ...
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  • he joined Scroll and Key Society. At Harvard Law School from 1915 to 1918, ... A lifelong Democrat, Acheson worked at the Washington, D.C., law firm ...
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  • be limited both by the written and the oral law, the interpretation of which ... long-hold Pharisaic principle that the Oral Law, as interpreted in each ...
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  • that people are bound to obey only the law of God, in its zahir or literal ... be determined by referring to a hadith (oral tradition) which had been ...
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  • The Betsy Ross story is based solely on oral affidavits from her daughter ... Maryland–15-star/15-stripe flag)–Public Law 83-319 (approved March 26, 1954). ...
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  • to the entire chain of Jewish tradition (as in Oral law), but in reference to the masoretic text the word mesorah has a very specific meaning: The diacritic ...
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  • Some governments define the term drug by law. In the United States ... prevent the growth of microorganisms in the oral cavity. ...
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  • ordered to translate the precepts of sacred law into vernacular song in a ... *Frank, R. 1993. "The search for the Anglo-Saxon oral poet" ...
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  • (1) Scholarly and journalistic activities (e.g., oral history, journalism ... justice agency for activities authorized by law or court order solely for ...
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  • as with an echo") originally denoted oral transmission from teacher ... form of religious instruction, typically oral, and traditionally under the ...
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  • Chaikin. An Iron Hand Upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the ... was often a process of an elder skilled at oral tradition speaking to the ...
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  • was formed. The powerful assistance and oral skills of a Mohawk wiseman ... Cayuga incorporated together in 1937 under Oklahoma law. ...
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  • At trial, the federal district court struck down the law as unconstitutional ... Court of the United States upheld the law as constitutional as a condition ...
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  • writers and scholars to investigate Native oral and written literary history ... him to Emily Howells, the sister-in-law of the Anglican missionary ...
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  • of any religion still in use. Since an oral Vedic tradition continued ... Hinduism, sometimes known as Sanatana Dharma ("Eternal Law" ...
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  • their own form of laws passed on through oral tradition, and a spiritual ... first Inuk ever to visit Europe. The Inuit oral tradition, in contrast, recounts ...
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  • Category:Law Child abuse is an act, or failure to act, that endangers ... the adult’s; intercourse, incest, rape, oral sex, or sodomy with the child; ...
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  • "tradition [adat] founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon ... its adat. These stories are derived from an oral history which was transmitted ...
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  • Judaism, which constitute the Torah (divine law). They form the core of the ... which constitute the Torah, the divine Law or Teaching that defines a ...
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  • The history of the ancient city of Gao has been reconstructed from ... based on strict interpretations of Islamic law. His dictates were enforced ...
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  • of God. He also mounted a strong defense of oral tradition and revelation in ... the wilderness, the delivery to them of the Law on Mount Sinai, and their ...
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  • not involve vaginal penetration: Such as oral sex, anal sex, and mutual ... protecting virginity. Germany abandoned a law (§1300 BGB) only in 1998 ...
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  • Ali was Muhammad's cousin, son-in-law, father of his only descendants ... somewhat in their approach to recorded oral tradition, or hadith. Shi ...
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  • Achomawi traditional narratives include myths, legends, and oral histories ... of the Pit River Tribe.] National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights ...
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  • teacher at a Jewish academy, and authority in Jewish law. in the transmission of the "Oral Law," which deeply enriched ...
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  • Category:Law Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ...
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  • Perrault published several tales from the oral tradition that he modified ... and set about educating himself. He studied law before embarking on a career ...
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  • Quechan traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Quechan people. The Southern California Creation ...
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  • * Healing of Peter's mother-in-law, demoniacs, a leper, and a ... * Oral sources: To what extent did each evangelist or literary collaborator ...
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  • to move Larry into the home of her sister-in-law.[http://www.usca.edu/aasc/doby ... about the game they loved. The baseball oral history project, v. 1. (New ...
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  • initially studied medicine, then switched to law. Vygotsky continued his self ... speech, (both silent inner speech and oral language) and the development ...
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  • are foundational; communication, education, law, political science, and social ... are foundational; communication, education, law, political science, and social ...
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  • of Prague in 1584 in favor of his brother-in-law, Isaac Hayoth, who was of ... powers which had circulated earlier in the oral tradition. Other accounts ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family in most societies and is often prohibited by law. Which family members constitute ...
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  • or "second-giving," of the Law of Moses. later introduced into both European and Byzantine law codes. ...
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  • known as the Gayanashagowa (or "Great Law of Peace"), was established ... Oral tradition tells of how the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, ...
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  • God. The Talmud also recounts that when the Law was given to Israel at Sinai ... * Olrik, Axel. Principles for Oral Narrative Research. Translated ...
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  • with information from other sources such as oral histories and existing monuments ... with depictions of the Wheel of the Law (Tarn, "The Greeks in ...
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  • yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish ... peoples of Central Asia a tradition of oral epics, such as the Book of ...
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  • of these sources were informed by various oral traditions known to their authors. ... special concern for ritual, liturgy, and religious law. ...
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  • Some anthropologists lend credence to the mythical oral traditions ... to the Ten Lost Tribes at all. Yet, that oral tradition has widespread credence ...
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  • right, wrote St. Augustine, proves to be no law (lex injusta non est lex) ... after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. As a result, foreign ...
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  • order of the universe, and justice as the law of moral life. ... ) plays a pervasive role as the law of moral life. Radhakrishnan and ...
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  • books of the Hebrew Bible) or any Jewish law at all. The term can also ... law, via discussion and debate in the Oral law, as recorded in the rabbinic ...
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  • medium. This became known as Stokes' law. Later the CGS unit of viscosity ... were only touched upon in the course of his oral lectures. An excellent example ...
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  • about safer sex practices for manual, oral, and anal sex, despite these activities' different risk levels for sexually transmitted diseases. ...
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  • known as the Thomas theorem, a fundamental law of sociology, namely that ... He spent the next years collecting both oral reports and written materials ...
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  • and as such poskim ("decisors of Jewish law") have varyingly interpreted ... generally do not feel bound to Jewish oral law, so tzitzyot may vary in ...
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  • by the World Health Organization for oral rehydration has proven useful ... to another, but rather through the fecal-oral route. Persons infected with ...
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  • |postgrad = 7,579 (1,652 law) |faculty = 681 full time, 475 adjunct ... new school. With the addition in 1905 of a law school and a (now defunct ...
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  • elimination of the state; the provision of law enforcement, courts, national ... anarcho-capitalism, "the systems of law will be produced for profit ...
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  • full physical description that may reflect oral tradition. In the Syriac text ... you marry Thamyris, in accordance with the law of the Iconians?" Castelius ...
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  • to prepare students for higher studies in law and jurisprudence. His lessons ... part of a treatise on universal law. Although a full volume was ...
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  • Drawn from the oral histories of Japanese Catholic communities, Shusaku ... government enacted the 1940 Religious Bodies Law recognizing Christianity as ...
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