Oral Tradition and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Shem Miller
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):3-22 The Dead Sea Scrolls are a cache of ancient manuscripts written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek…
An Examination of the Poetics of Tibetan Secular Oratory: An A mdo Tibetan Wedding Speech
Timothy Thurston
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):23-501 On an auspicious day, two families from Ne’u na Village, a small village along the Yellow River in Western China’s Qinghai Province, gather to celebrate…
Magic Questions: The Rhetoric of Authority in South Slavic Epic Song
Milan Vidaković
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):51-88 People who pose questions and practitioners of magic have one thing in common: they claim power…
Does Hector’s Helmet Flash?: The Fate of the Fixed Epithet in the Modern English Homer
Richard Hughes Gibson
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):89-114 The most important question raised by studies in oral tradition is “So what?”—John Miles Foley, “Oral…
The Myth of Milman Parry: Ajax or Elpenor?
Steve Reece
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):115-142 The Myth of Milman Parry Oral traditions are creative: they romanticize and sensationalize otherwise mundane events.…
