Oral Tradition Definition

Oral Tradition Sentence Examples

• What he has to tell us of the history of South Palestine was derived from oral tradition.

• In the second place they are sealed to all but those who know how to read them, and so they lie forgotten for centuries while oral tradition flourishes, - being within the reach of every man.

• The language in which we receive these ballads, however, is as late as the 16th or even the 17th century, but it is believed that they have become gradually modernized in the course of oral tradition.

• When Alexandra came to the throne the Pharisees were the real rulers and imposed upon the people the deductions from the written Law which formed the growing body of their oral tradition.

• They are contained in a short chronicle written between 1467 and 1476, probably about 5470, and based on oral tradition.