Sentence examples for oral law from inspiring English sources

…passages from Scripture and the Oral Law (Mishna) compiled in the late medieval period.

Pharisaism as enshrined in the Mishna (oral law) and the Talmud (commentary on and addition to the oral law) became normative Judaism.

The "Written Law" of Scripture and the "Oral Law" of tradition are ultimately one.

Halakhic Midrashim (interpretations and commentaries on Oral Law) are another source of Baraitot.

Tosefta, (Aramaic: Supplement, or Addition), a collection of oral traditions related to Jewish oral law.

In the search for authenticity of both the written and oral law much is made of the opinion of learned individuals who debated the meaning of the oral law from 100-400 CE.

The Pharisees, on the other hand, believed that the Law that God gave to Moses was twofold, consisting of the Written Law and the Oral Law i.e., the teachings of the prophets and the oral traditions of the Jewish people.

For the Sadducees, the Oral Law i.e., the vast body of post-biblical Jewish legal traditions meant next to nothing.

Ibn Daud wrote the former work in answer to an attack on rabbinic authority by the Karaites, a heretical Jewish sect that considered only Scripture as authoritative, not the Jewish Oral Law as embodied in the Talmud, the rabbinic compendium of law, lore, and commentary.

…had some knowledge of the Oral Law, which was developing in his time, and he also knew of the Essenes, whom he praised highly.

Strauss, subtly reading between the lines, uncovered a Spinoza hostile to the Hebrew Bible, and to the Oral Law of a tradition he had repudiated before his people, in response, excommunicated him.