March 2003 Volume 18, Number 1 : Synopses of Oral Traditions (1) Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Oral Tradition and Biblical Scholarship Susan Niditch The Perspective from Folklore Studies Pertti Anttonen “Oral Tradition” in a Technologically Advanced World Timothy R. Tangherlini A Plea for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Arab Oral Tradition Saad A. Sowayan Oral History Amy Shuman Oral Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom Catharine Mason Frame Tales and Oral Tradition Bonnie D. Irwin Continual Morphing Lee Haring Some Reflections on the “People’s Slam of Radivoje Ilić”: Thoughts on the Interplay of the Oral and Visual Joel M. Halpern Stumbling with/over Scripts: Vignettes Daniel Avorgbedor Basque Bertsolaritza Linda White Translating Lithuanian Poetry Jonas Zdanys Oral Tradition in Lithuania Lina Bugiene Tibetan Oral Epic Yang Enhong The Metamorphosing Field of Chaoxianzu Oral Literature Peace B. Lee Orality in Tibet Anne Klein The Global and the Local with a Focus on Africa Beverly Stoeltje Oral Tradition in the Context of Verbal Art Thomas A. Hale Zulu Oral Art H.C. Groenewald “Oral Tradition”: Weasel Words or Transdisciplinary Door to Multiplexity? Ruth Finnegan Oral Tradition and Folkloristics Ülo Valk The People’s Poetry Steve Zeitlin Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry Gregory Nagy Performance Praxis and Oral Tradition Elizabeth C. Fine The Grain of Greek Voices Richard Martin Neoanalysis and Oral Tradition in Homeric Studies Margalit Finkelberg Homer and the Oral Tradition Mark W. Edwards Ancient Greek Oral Genres Casey Dué The Homeric Question: An Issue for the Ancients? David Bouvier Oral Tradition and Hellenistic Epic: New Directions in Apollonius of Rhodes Michael Barnes Homer as Oral Tradition Egbert J. Bakker Tradition as Communication Thomas A. McKean Homeric Studies Steve Reece The Poem Performed Felice Belle Oral Tradition in Bible and New Testament Studies Werner H. Kelber Oral Tradition and Rabbinic Studies Martin S. Jaffee Oral Tradition in New Testament Studies Richard A. Horsley The Japanese Tale of the Heike Yamashita Hiroaki Performed Narratives and Music in Japan Alison Tokita Japanese Oral Tradition Sybil Thornton Japanese Noh and Heike katari Shelley Fenno Quinn The Heike in Japan Elizabeth Oyler The Reception of Homer as Oral Poetry M. D. Usher Supplemental Materials About the Authors