Search results for "Oral law" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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