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.

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 women rarely wish to become concubines, therefore, debates about the rights of concubines are largely irrelevant.

Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows, however there are a number of caveats to this point ; not all plate armour was well-made or well looked after, and there were also weak points in the eye and air holes and joints where arrows could penetrate, meaning that even if the armour was proof against nearly all arrows, being shot at by thousands of longbowmen would have been an uncomfortable experience, physically and mentally.

Modern memory managers therefore provide techniques for programmers to semantically mark memory with varying levels of usefulness, which correspond to varying levels of reachability.

Modern liberal Protestant denominations are often accused by Trinitarians within their ranks, and critics outside, of being indifferent to the doctrine, and therefore self-isolated from their respective Trinitarian pasts and heritage.

The Germanic phoneme was therefore written as ‹ vv › or ‹ uu › (‹ u › and ‹ v › becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period ) by the 7th or 8th century by the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German.

Modern communist states, which the People's Republic of China forms an example of, therefore prefer to define a framework of permissible, or even encouraged, criticism and self-determination by inferiors, which would not affect the major state doctrine, but allows the use of professional and expertise-driven knowledge and the use of it for the decision-making persons in office.

Modern anthropology developed at a time when a great many human societies were non-literate, and much of the research on incest taboos has taken place in societies without legal codes, and, therefore, without written laws concerning marriage and incest.

Modern scholars doubt the reliability of these sources and our knowledge of Solon's legislation is therefore actually very limited in its details.

Modern Sphynx therefore trace their origins to the second Canadian bloodline and to the Minnesota cats.

) Modern historians have therefore had confidence in the 155-year figure and have used it to date Hiram ’ s reign.

" Toff, who is also an editor for Oxford University Press, describes in some detail the etymology of words for " flute ," comparing OED, Fowler's Modern English Usage, Evans ' Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, and Copperud's American Usage and Style: The Consensus before arriving at her conclusion: " I play the flute, not the flaut ; therefore I am a flutist not a flautist.

Fowler puts it in Modern English Usage, the object of both parable and allegory " is to enlighten the hearer by submitting to him a case in which he has apparently no direct concern, and upon which therefore a disinterested judgment may be elicited from him.

Modern HPLC systems have been improved to work at much higher pressures, and therefore are able to use much smaller particle sizes in the columns (< 2 m ).

Modern hub gear-units incorporate the indexing in the unit itself and are therefore unaffected by shifting malfunctions caused in this way.

Modern references to the Black-shouldered Kite should therefore unambiguously mean the Australian species, E. axillaris.

Ultimately, a random number generator ( RNG ) determines the outcome of each battle, so it is therefore possible ( although rare ) for a Bronze Age Spearman to defeat a Modern Age Modern Armor.

Modern Alu elements are about 300 base pairs long and are therefore classified as short interspersed elements ( SINEs ) among the class of repetitive DNA elements.

Modern foils average 89 cm in length, and have standardized, tapered, quadrangular blades which are designed to present a blunt ( and therefore non-lethal ) tip should they snap.

Several critics have pointed to grammatical errors in the Early Modern English style of the Book of Mormon and made the argument that because the first edition of the Book of Mormon contained hundreds of grammatical errors ( removed in later editions ), the book was therefore fabricated by J. Smith and not divinely inspired.

Modern scholarship therefore generally agrees that the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the oldest.

Modern scholarship therefore generally agrees that the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the oldest.

Modern deinterlacing systems therefore buffer several fields and use techniques like edge detection in an attempt to find the motion between the fields.

Modern solid state amplifiers, which use relatively high levels of negative feedback to control distortion, have extremely low output impedances — one of the many consequences of using feedback — and small changes in an already low value change overall damping factor by only a small, and therefore negligible, amount.