The few scholars who have adopted the `` shore occupied by '' interpretation, Howorth, Shore, and Wade-Evans, have all been Celtic survivalists.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.

According to many scholars it only comprises a small number of monosyllabic lexical roots, including the personal pronouns and a few other deictic and auxiliary items.

A few scholars are of the opinion that this passage was a concession to growing influence of shramanic culture on the Brahmanical religion.

However, a few scholars have hypothesised that Brahui is a remnant of a formerly widespread Dravidian language family that is believed to have been reduced or replaced during the influx of Iranian / Indo-Aryan languages upon their arrival in South Asia.

Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.

" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

In his introduction, Blevins writes, " Since the time of F. C. Baur, very few scholars have doubted the Pauline authorship of the letter.

While these epistles are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus, there are a few scholars who consider them pseudepigraphical.

Only few scholars have argued against Paul's authorship.

Because Galen's works were not translated into Latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the study of Galen, along with the Greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages, when very few Latin scholars could read Greek.

However, the evidence is scant ( a few names and three non-Turkic words ), thus scholars currently conclude that the Hunnic language cannot presently be classified, and attempts to classify it as Turkic and Mongolic are speculative.

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

Over the past few decades, some scholars have argued for a 7th century BC date.

There are few scholars who believe this, but it demonstrates how the paradigm has shifted.

However, a few scholars still question the authenticity of the reference, based on various arguments, but primarily based on the observation that various details in The Jewish War differ from it.

A few scholars have questioned the passage, contending that the absence of Christian tampering or interpolation does not itself prove authenticity.

Paul L. Maier states that most scholars agree with Feldman's assessment that " few have doubted the genuineness of this passage " Zvi Baras also states that most modern scholars consider the James passage to be authentic.

Richard Bauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned the James passage, " the vast majority have considered it to be authentic ", and that among the several accounts of the death of James the account in Josephus is generally considered to be historically the most reliable.

Today, the few scholars working on these languages treat the three groups as independent language families that cannot or can no longer be shown to be genetically related " ( p. 841 ).

Very few scholars outside of mainstream Islam reject all the quotes ( Hadith ) attributed to Prophet Muhammad that mention the second return of Jesus, the Dajjal and Imam Mahdi, believing that they have no Qur ' anic basis.

Perhaps his most important private activity was the combination of reading, discussion with a few -- if we can trust his writings to Diodati and the younger Gill, very few -- congenial companions.

However, few are taxed, and the owners and location of most boats are unknown to the assessors on the date of assessment of town valuations.

The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.

You still have time to drop a few hints about the gifts you'd appreciate most ; ;

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

In spite of this, the very large radio reflectors and improved amplifying techniques which are now becoming available should make it possible to observe the radio emission of most of the planets in a few years.

Frequently a few isolated thick-walled cells or, rarely, groups of such cells in the xylem region, were also specifically stained, but there was no such staining in epidermis, cortex, most xylem cells, ray cells, or pith.

Also, although only a few of the students were intimately acquainted with each other in the beginning, most reported that when the semester ended their dearest and closest campus friendships were with members of that class.

One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.

Even in its most conventional appearance, the guests' song of praise to Marina, there are a few female dissenters criticizing the princess for her coldness.

Conventional energy for processing foods is available in the range of at most a few cents per kwhr for electric power and the equivalent of a few mills per kwhr for process steam.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

The knowledge that most Americans have of folklore comes through contact with commercial propagandists and a few energetic amateurs and collectors.

The most serious weakness of the ecumenical movement today is that it is generally regarded as the responsibility of a few national leaders in each denomination and a few interdenominational executives.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

since Myra had always put most of Greg's money on her own back, Lucy suspected that no more than a few of that long row would be needed.

Many methods are used in amateur astronomy, but most are variations of a few specific techniques.

Altogether, Starostin concluded that the Altaic grouping was substantiated, though " older than most other language families in Eurasia, such as Indo-European or Finno-Ugric, and this is the reason why the modern Altaic languages preserve few common elements ".