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 ...

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 ...

Bloomsday is an odd sort of holiday. Every June 16, people around the world gather to commemorate the single day—June 16, 1904—described in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” The celebrations begin in Dublin, ...

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 ...

Athenian historians correctly identified that the city's port, Piraeus had been an island thousands of years before. Oral tradition is very underrated by moderns. We did manage to keep and share ...

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 ...

Caste is one of human history's oldest forms of inequality, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste ...

Evening schmooze played a key social role in bringing people closer in the neighbourhoods of Malabar in times past. Payaram Parachil, as it was locally known, was an oral narrative part of the village ...