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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Charlie Murphy — who died Wednesday of leukemia at age 57 — was most famous for his "True Hollywood Stories," a pair of comedy sketches that aired as part of Chappelle's Show in February 2004. The ...

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 ...

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 ...