Modern scholars assign a wide range of genres to the Acts of the Apostles, including biography, novel and history.

Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

Modern scholars mostly accept the identification.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσήνοι, Εσσαίοι, or Οσσαίοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a sect of Second Temple Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

Modern scholars question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Jimmu's descendant, Emperor Sujin, is the first that, many agree, may have existed, in third or fourth century.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Suizei's descendant, Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Annei's descendant, Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Kōshō's descendant, Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Kōan's descendant, Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Kōrei's descendant, Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Kōgen's descendant, Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Kaika's son Emperor Sujin is the first many agree might have actually existed, in third or fourth century.

Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ( cf.

Modern scholars such as Lee Hollander explain that Lokasenna was intended to be humorous and that the accusations thrown by Loki in the poem are not necessarily to be taken as " generally accepted lore " at the time it was composed.

Modern scholars consider many claimed noble ancestries to be fabrications, such as the Anglo-Saxon chronicles that traced the ancestry of several English kings to the god Woden.

Modern scholars generally turn to Herodotus's own writing for reliable information about his life, very carefully supplemented with other ancient yet much later sources, such as the Byzantine Suda:

Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought ( he is sometimes identified as the first economist ), archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.

Modern scholars have accepted his identification of Amphidamas but disagreed with his conclusion.

Modern scholars therefore see Israel arising peacefully and internally in the highlands.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσηνοι, Εσσαιοι, or Οσσαιοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a Jewish sect that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

Some scholars believe that Modern Orthodoxy arose from the religious and social realities of Western European Jewry.

Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priya-muwa -, which means " exceptionally courageous ".

The History of Childhood, authored by ten scholars ( including deMause ), is often linked to Edward Shorter's The Making of the Modern Family and Lawrence Stone's The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, because of the common ground they share in agreeing with a grim perspective of childhood history.

Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from " bind, connect ", probably from a prefixed, i. e. re ( again ) + ligare or " to reconnect ," which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius.

Modern European conservatives such as Edmund Burke have found the extreme idealism of either democracy may endanger broader liberties, and similarly reject " abstract reason " as a guide for political theory.

Modern Disciples reject the use of creeds as " tests of faith ," that is, as required beliefs, necessary to be accepted as a follower of Jesus.

Modern historians would reject parts of the Kenneth produced by Skene and subsequent historians, while accepting others.

Modern scholars largely reject such efforts to garner biographical details from fictive texts preferring instead to interpret the diverse characters and themes as representing the poet's own contrastive perceptions of contemporary life and thought.

Some in Modern Orthodox Judaism reject the above view as naive.

Modern historians reject the traditional view that Edward mainly employed Norman favourites, but he did have foreigners in his household, including a few Normans, who became unpopular.

Modern systematic theories reject such conceptions of " primitive " and " highly developed " organisms and instead consider exclusively the historical relationships between the taxa.

Modern historians reject this hypothesis, which is sustained by no archeological evidence.

That river's spirits reject it too, and the body is driven east into " Losania ", where it is plunged in the bay of the lake near Lucerne, near Mont Pilatus – originally Mons Pileatus or " cloud-capped ", as John Ruskin pointed out in Modern Painters — whence the uncorrupting corpse rises every Good Friday to sit on the bank and wash unavailing hands.

Most Modern Orthodox Jews reject the idea that the Holocaust was God's fault.

Modern scholars reject this interpretation, and credit Peng with both the successes and failures of the war.

Other Modern Christian views, including some conservative Protestants, reject the idea of the New Testament as an extended covenant, and retain the classical Christian view as described above.

Modern scholars, however, reject the concept of a phylogenetically much distinct Moriori, and instead consider them a culturally distinct offshoot of an early ( pre-Kai Tahu ) South Island Māori group, as evidenced by similarities between the Moriori language and the k-dialect of southern Māori.

Modern Rockefeller Republicans are typically center-right, reject far-right policies, and are culturally liberal.

Another group sought to reconcile Christian faith with " Modern " ideas, sometimes causing them to reject beliefs they considered to be illogical, including the Nicene creed and Chalcedonian Creed.

Some Modern Orthodox thinkers of a mitnagged cast of thought, however, such as Yeshayahu Leibowitz, reject Zoharic Kabbalah and praise the work of Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ.

Sproul's work The Holiness of God is considered a modern classic on the subject of God's character, and his book Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology was highly praised by those who reject the materialism advocated by some in the scientific community.

Modern scholars tend to reject this translation as do Protestants, and their Bible translations chose other interpretations.