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en-wikipedia-org-357		Oral law - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	845	93	62	Oral law Wikipedia An oral law is a code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or community application, by which a body of rules of human behaviour is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected, or the single rule that is orally transmitted. Many cultures have an oral law, while most contemporary legal systems have a formal written organisation. From a legal point of view, an oral law can be: Main article: Oral Torah "The Path", frequently translated as "Jewish Law") is based on a written instruction together with an oral instruction. Jewish law and tradition is thus not based on a literal reading of the Tanakh, but on the combined oral and written tradition. Finnegan, Ruth H., A Note on Oral Tradition and Historical Evidence, in History and Theory 10 (1970), 195–201. Vansina, J., Oral Tradition as History (Wisconsin, 1985) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oral_law&oldid=977127826" Oral tradition	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-357.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-357.txt