Sentences with phrase «oral tradition of»

The amendments will remove an injustice that Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders have long faced in the Australian legal system because of their oral tradition of knowledge.

It is widely accepted and understood that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies have an oral tradition of knowledge.

There is no evidence in oral tradition of hostile encounters with the Aboriginal people of the eastern region, although contact was infrequent before the

the oral tradition of his people obligated him to abide by Haudenosaunee law and not Ontario and federal family law;

African - Americans have an oral tradition of good - natured trash talk often used in school yards which doesn't use a base ten, but is instead known as «playing the dozens.»

How then do you explain comments of the fur traders or the oral tradition of the west coast people that speak of failures of the salmon runs with descriptions that indicate they're related to weather changes?

If planning is done on the basis of the worst event in oral tradition of a 2 meter high tsunami, what happens if the next tsunami (or storm surge or river flood) is 10 meters high?

Even so, he managed to have a working library including many philosophical and religious books, including a couple of works on the Kaballah, the written and oral tradition of Jewish mysticism.

Recited fragments of ghost stories sourced from the oral tradition of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, form a continuous narrative linking one room to the next.

The revolt was accompanied by an increased appreciation of Russian tradition as embodied in icons as well as in the oral tradition of fairytales, songs, incantations and sayings... Remarks by Malevich himself reveal a similar spirit... The absurdists [OBERIU group] who performed at Malevich's institute really did wish to undermine the credibility of the rapidly spreading, supposedly scientific materialism with their absurd actions.

We'll never know for sure whether these fables actually were first told by Aesop himself (who is said to have lived in Greece around 600 BC), or even if Aesop existed as a person, but they do appear to have been part of the oral tradition of ancient Greece.

«I tell kids, «So much of what you consume now, whether it's hip hop or whether it's other forms of oral performative storytelling, comes out of the oral tradition of poetry at its root.

What was true of the ancient Greeks who maintained a vast oral tradition of epic poetry through repetition and embellishment, or of medieval troubadours who spread songs across continents, with each new singer making alterations, is also true of content created in digital media.

[/ font][font = Century Gothic] «Two Canoes» is a beautiful exploration of the oral tradition of storytelling in Aboriginal culture.

The oral tradition of yoga overflows with these fractal patterns which are outlined in the teachings of the tantric chakra system.

Her most recent book Yoga Sadhana for Mothers published by YogaWords and co written with Anna Wise is the first book on the subject of Ashtanga Yoga, pregnancy, birth and motherhood drawing from the oral tradition of her Guruji's family and shared experiences from many of his most devoted women students.

Now a genetic study of modern - day cohanim has provided the first scientific evidence supporting the oral tradition of an ancient priestly lineage.

Jesus» resurrection, and upon the message, (a) the expectation of the coming judgment, with Christ as judge, and (b) the promise of salvation of those who repented and trusted in him, taken along with (c) the purely subsidiary and qualifying or evidential reference to Jesus» earthly life and ministry — this very relation between hope, proof, and historic fact is the relation which prevailed in the period of the oral tradition of the sayings and deeds of Jesus, and eventually fashioned the structure of the Synoptic Gospels.

Kabala was the oral tradition of the Pharisees.

A different type of this hindrance to careful listening to a particular text exists in the oral tradition of a harmonized New Testament.

They were doubtless told again and again in the early church, as today one remembers the illustrations in a sermon, and thus found their way into not only the oral tradition of the church but the earlier written sources of the Gospels.

Such are the «Pastoral Epistles» to Timothy and Titus, (It seems likely that these epistles, in their present form, were composed round about A.D. 100, partly out of shorter letters treasured as relics of the great apostle, and partly out of the oral tradition of his teaching and practice.)

[3] Although the Sadducees and Karaites rejected the oral tradition of the Orthodox, secular scholars concur that these groups were short - lived splinters off the historical mainstream of Orthodoxy.

It is possible that Jesus was quite the potty mouth and his language was cleaned up during the subsequent oral tradition of passing down what he said through a couple of generations and then having it ultimately written down.

During this time, the oral tradition of the Hebrew people was the only vehicle for passing on tradition.

Jesus learned to read and write at the hands of a Pharisee, one steeped in the oral traditions of his religion.

Sad you miss so much rich expression of the people that brought the oral traditions of monotheism forward as their God intended.

It was a collection of earlier written / oral traditions of the 12 tribes fused together into a single narrative.

So until the 200 + branches of Christians can get their act together and worship the same God in the same way, never mind acknowledge that their religion stems from the oral traditions of the Muslim / Jewish religions, the odds of all of the Middle Eastern - born religion uniting is a long shot.

The history was there, in the oral traditions of Jesus» life and death; and the experience was equally real, and could now be shared anywhere and by anyone, by Saul the persecutor, by Gentile centurions and treasurers and simple men of Cyprus and Cyrene and Antioch, by pagan Galatians, and by cosmopolitan Corinthians and Romans — Jews and Greeks, bond and free.

It was through these the oral traditions of the Madiga history were carried on from generation to generation.

Instead, they relied upon oral traditions of the same sort as those recorded by the evangelists.

Rooted in the oral traditions of the Tuvan people and their epics, Galsan Tschinag's novel weaves the timeless story of a boy poised on the cusp of manhood with it the tale of a people's vanishing way of life.

The format in which information is distributed should take into account the oral traditions of indigenous peoples and their languages.

Not exact matches

One of the simplest things to go around by the oral tradition is the use of animals for transportation, which, in turn, is passed down from generation to generation.

G to T What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth.

There is the teaching and instructions of the chosen ones that was passed on by oral tradition.

fred «What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth»

Oral tradition was a self correcting excercise, as opposed to the ridiculous comparison people make to the game of telephone.

It seems we were ahead of the curve by about 10,000 years (or more once the oral traditions are accounted for).

They accused the disciples of transgressing oral tradition by failing to wash their hands before a meal.

The tradition in question here was a matter of the distinction between clean and unclean, which is prominent both in the Old Testament and in the oral law.

Hindus believe god revealed truths to wise men who passed them on for thousands of years through a rich oral tradition.

These three separate accounts only prove that there was a long period of oral tradition and development.

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

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

He asks whether, as we move into a new culture that is strongly oral in character, whether theology and doctrine are necessarily the best way of ensuring integrity and continuity of our faith tradition.

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.

Because Jesus was Jewish, He obeyed the Mosaic Law, worshipped God in the Jewish Temple, attended a Jewish Synagogue, taught from the Jewish Scriptures, and even obeyed many of the Jewish oral traditions.

There is no proof that the bible is anything more than a collection of middle - eastern myths, derived from oral tradition, edited by men with a definite agenda, transcribed repeatedly and translated by individuals of varying skill.