Search results for "Oral law" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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  • 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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  • of any religion still in use. Since an oral Vedic tradition continued ... Hinduism, sometimes known as Sanatana Dharma ("Eternal Law" ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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