Sentences with phrase «of oral stories»

In contrast to the ancient apostles» media landscape of oral stories and parchment scrolls, Bendiksen was confronted with contemporary Messiahs communicating revelations in the age of Facebook, viral YouTube videos, twitter - storms and thirty - second attention spans.

How could they communicate the rich content and complexities of their oral stories in their own writing?

Short stories followed much later and came from the tradition of oral story telling.

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I all but begged him to let me do a series of oral - history interviews with him to record his story, central as it was to a critical phase of Silicon Valley's development.

When I sat for oral examinations in my master's degree in English, where I concentrated in creative writing, one of the questions was about how I approach foreshadowing in my short stories.

I don't think this is how it really happened, but the point of the story is that no Jewish person would ever expect a non-Jewish person to obey or observe all of the Jewish laws, either the 613 of the Torah, or the 6000 + laws of the Oral Torah.

Throughout history, people have learned by oral tradition and from the stories of others.

It would be possible for Luke to have constructed a story in writing that would bear all the hallmarks of oral tradition, but it is unlikely.

Particularly at certain points, we sense the oral quality of the stories: this, or this, or this strikes us as something told, even though we read it now.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

Gary, the Gospels are also different because, in ancient cultures, and many contemporary tribal cultures, the oral Tradition was a means of transmitting experiential wisdom through stories than historical facts (modern historicism) or systematic theologies.

The writers of Scripture sought to be faithful to available tradition, with all the limitations of oral culture, and were not necessarily averse to adjusting narrative to Old Testament prophecy, iconic stories of their culture, and theological proclamation.

It used the incident, as it used everything else that was given it in the oral tradition about Jesus which preceded the setting - down in written texts the story of Jesus, as a way in which the importance of the originating event was declared.

And one of the most important people in the story is famed evangelist and university founder Oral Roberts.

Performance of sacred stories and subsequent oral interpretations made the faith of Judaism accessible to outsiders and helped to assimilate pagans into the communities of worship.

The nature of the sayings, and their origins in an oral culture, put them in a different category from the stories about Jesus» actions.

We have already noted that there are reasons for thinking that the burial story had been in circulation in oral tradition for some time, as it exhibits signs of having passed through a transformation.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

How do you account for the presence of two discrete forms of the oral tradition (a healing story and a conflict story) in a single narrative?

* Most, if not all, of the stories of the Old Testament are incomplete and inaccurate records of an oral tradition.

You have verifiable fact type books, then moral carrying fictional stories of an oral tradition which as most oral traditions go, the base stories were built up on every time they were retold and so again every time they were rewritten and translated!!!

We can learn skills that will enable us to memorize and recite biblical stories in corporate worship and other gatherings, or at least read them aloud as stories, letters, poems, and other expressions of oral art.

> You are the one ignoring histoy and culture of the Jews who were abloe to transmit stories accurately in oral form..

You can not even prove any of the godspel accounts are oral histories and not invented stories, and as a JD you must surely know at least three are lies.

After all, he states in the prologue of his first anthology of short stories (1941): «It is an arduous and impoverishing whim to compose vast books, to extend for five hundred long - winded pages an idea whose perfect oral exposition lasts a few minutes.

Thomas Boomershine's Story Journey: An Invitation to the Gospel as Storytelling reflects the influence of this oral, traditional approach.

But the historicity of the «miracle» stories has now been severely undermined by modern Biblical study, which has shown that we have here no infallible historical records, but the testimony of Christian traditions which had been molded by two or more generations of oral transmission.

0G - No gods, ghosts, goblins or ghouls We have the story of Gods revelation to mankind put into writing 3,400 years ago containing the oral traditions that go back before Abraham to Adam and Eve.

They hold on to a particular interpretation of an ancient story in Genesis that they have fashioned into a modern account of origins - a story that began as an oral tradition for a wandering tribe of Jews thousands of years ago.

Meanwhile, in 1981, in an innovative paper presented at United Theological College, Bangalore, Arvind P. Nirmal found a point of irreversible departure «Towards a Sudra Theology» which had eventually led him to be the father of dalit theology.3 Nirmal himself used to recall the lores and stories from the Marathi dalit oral tradition and admitted that he has been greatly influenced by them in his understanding of God.

Everything of enduring significance that ancient Israel became, believed, and proclaimed is ultimately influenced not only by what actually occurred in the time of the exodus, but by the story of the exodus — the story as it was first remembered and repeated; the story as it assumed relatively fixed classical forms in different areas, in the North or South; the story as its multiple versions, written and oral, were compared, mutually «corrected,» and finally composed into the single, unified narrative that is before us now.

Riddles: There are a number of riddles known as PODUPU KATHALU (= puzzle stories), or VIPPUDU KATHALU (= untie stories) most of which are still in oral transmission.

In his words, «Furthermore, since between 95 and 97 percent of the Jewish state was illiterate at the time of Jesus, it must be presumed that Jesus also was illiterate, that he knew, like the vast majority of his contemporaries in an oral culture, the foundational narratives, basic stories, and general expectations of his tradition but not the exact texts, precise citations, or intricate arguments of its scribal elites» (Ibid: 25 - 26).

They have created their own ways of communication, ranging from stories in oral traditions to folk art and music, from popular histories to religious and cultural sysmbolism.

It is important to remember that we are dealing with a part of the Old Testament story which had a long oral history before it assumed its written form, and no doubt the oral form was shaped, preserved, and periodically «celebrated» at some particular, ancient cultic center.

This material, partly oral, partly written, was already in circulation in the communities before the composition of the Gospels, and it consisted of narratives, sayings, and other bits of discourse (including the parables), and the Passion story.

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Instead, as if from some other age, an oral history of the coach developed, and whenever old players or other Scooba minstrels gathered, they would share Bull Cyclone stories, telling the same ones over and over, word for word, liturgically, as the wives drifted to the corners and shook their heads.

NASA Alumni League, reseach grant for «Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program,» 1999.

Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program has been published as an e-book containing condensed versions of selected interviews.

2012 Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of America's Space Program by Robbie Davis - Floyd, Kenneth J. Cox, and Frank White.

Honeywell Corporation, reseach grant for «Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program,» 1998.

Space stories: Oral Histories From The Pioneers of America's Space Program An Oral History Project conducted in conjunction with the Houston Chapter of the AIAA and Honeywell Corporation Official...

Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (IAIR), research grant for «Space Stories: Oral Histories from the Pioneers of the American Space Program,» 1999; grant for interview with Dr. Richard Smalley, Nobel Prize Winner for the invention of nano - technology, 2000.

The goal of the project is to gather Real Stories of Real Babies into an oral history of cloth diapers and to connect our era of cloth diapering with internet support to an earlier era when women told one another face - to - face how to diaper their babies.

Here, some things people told us in a story for an exhaustive oral history, the entirety of which you can read.

Rikki Rockett, drummer in the band Poison, shares his story of oral cancer, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

As part of its ongoing Oral History Project to record personal stories.

October 16, 2012 • A new oral history of women working in comedy includes stories from the world of stand - up, the world of late - night, and the world of comedy.

The deliberately over-plotted story has nefarious government experiments gone horribly wrong, military types, including Tarantino, doing battle with an unscrupulous scientist (Naveen Andrews with hair flowing and bandana in place), a doctor with an unusual oral fetish (Josh Brolin) and his straying wife (Marley Shelton), who fulfills her doctorly duties by packing a garter - belt full of syringes.