Oral Tradition what is it? After writing and sharing with you Aesop and his fables, it got me thinking, what is oral tradition? We know that Aesop lived during the time when the written word was not ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Little attention has been devoted to the uncritical and almost reflexive incorporation of available printed information into allegedly oral ...
Before the gospels were composed, Jesus' first followers sustained his memory by sharing stories of his life, death and teachings. It's rather clear from the way that the stories develop in the ...
The Koogere oral tradition is based on the female chief of Busongora, Koogere, who existed 1,500 years ago. The narratives, songs and poems describe her wisdom and philosophy that focus on plenty and ...
Preface: oral history and oral traditions / Stephen J. Augustine -- Introduction: a layering of voices: Aboriginal oral traditions / Renee Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod -- The assault on Aboriginal oral ...
Mohsin Siddiqui, 12, and his mother Rukshana Patel, in the musalla, or prayer room, of the Muslim Community Center of Charlotte. Inside a mosque in north Charlotte, 12-year-old Mohsin Siddiqui sits in ...
My 5-year-old nephew, Ezra, sits between his mother and grandmother on a porch-swing covered in old quilts. An expansive view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Madison County, N.C., spreads out before ...
A key value of passing down a culture by word of mouth is that it takes on so many different forms in the process, reflecting changes in people's mentality and social reality. Now an online database, ...
I remember well my grandmother's wake. I was sent to bed early but could still hear voices coming from the kitchen as bottles of McArdle's were passed around the table. I slept in the box room with ...
One might loosely define tradition as the authoritative and authentic Christian history of theological doctrines and devotional practices. Christianity is fundamentally grounded in the ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information AJS Review publishes scholarly articles and book reviews covering the field of Jewish Studies. From biblical and rabbinic textual ...