Scholars are unsure how much of Aristophanes ' portrayal is fact and how much mere comic invention.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

The Honors college enrolls 3523 undergraduate students, 613 of whom are National Merit Scholars.

Scholars have identified several passages in Jeremiah that can be understood as “ confessions ;” they occur in the first section of the book ( chapters 1-25 ) and are 11. 18-12. 6, 15. 10-21, 17. 14-18, 18. 18-23, and 20. 7-18.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Scholars opposing this view claim that while the dagger is unusual, ghosts of murdered victims are more believable, having a basis in the audience's superstitions.

Scholars who are not Christian Scientists rely on it, but church members strongly disfavor it.

Scholars like Rudolf E. Kalman and Aleksandr Lyapunov are well-known among the people who have shaped modern control theory.

Scholars investigating the cause of civil war are attracted by two opposing theories, greed versus grievance.

Caddies often obtain a promotion in rank once a year, while often Honor takes two years to achieve and Evans Scholars are only produced by winning the venerable Evans Scholarship for university.

Scholars are divided on whether it is based on Ezra-Nehemiah, or reflects an earlier literary stage before the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah accounts.

Scholars are divided over the chronological sequence of the activities of Ezra and Nehemiah.

" Scholars are unsure whether it means the " one who gathers " or the " one among the gathering.

Scholars are not unanimous about whether this indicates two authors.

Scholars are not unanimous about the authenticity of the pastoral epistles.

Scholars may introduce their own terminology and make theoretical distinctions which are different from those of the believers themselves .”

Scholars are also taking increasingly global perspectives, responding to postcolonialist criticisms of Anglo-and Eurocentrism in the academy more generally.

Biblical Scholars are in wide agreement that the author of the Gospel of Luke also wrote the Acts of the Apostles.

Scholars are divided over whether these rules originated with Jesus or with apostolic practice.

Scholars still debate whether these twists are mistakes or intentional additions to add to the play's theme of confusion and duality.

Tasmanian State League football features five clubs from Hobart, and other leagues such as Southern Football League and the Old Scholars Football Association are also played each Winter.

Scholars suggest they are descendants of early Austroasiatic-speaking agriculturalists, who brought both their language and their technology to the southern part of the peninsula approximately 4, 000 years ago.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

Scholars generally view these variations as indications that the Josephus passages are not interpolations, for a Christian interpolator would have made them correspond to the New Testament accounts, not differ from them.

Scholars generally view these variations as indications that the Josephus passages are not interpolations, for a Christian interpolator would have made them correspond to the Christian traditions.

Scholars in almost every European nation continued to repeat and improve upon Saint Isidore's assertion of descent from Noah through Japheth into the nineteenth century.

Scholars studying the sociology of religion have almost unanimously adopted this term as a neutral alternative to the word cult, which is often considered derogatory.

Scholars such as Vanderbilt University history professor Simon Collier, University of Belgrano agriculture history professor Osvaldo Barsky and Uruguayan history professor Jorge Ruffinelli from Stanford University agree that Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, in 1890, and that he laid a false trail about his birthplace beginning in 1920, when he was almost 30.

Scholars believe almost 62 percent of these were sacrificial victims, based on signs of ritual execution, method of burial, and other factors.

Scholars have varying degrees of certainty about the historical reliability of the accounts in the gospels, and the only two events whose historicity is the subject of almost universal agreement among scholars are the baptism and crucifixion of Jesus.

Scholars have disputed almost everything about the play ; but it was probably written sometime in the 1612 – 24 era and later revised, perhaps in 1630 or after.

Scholars almost universally agree that the book Hilkiah " found " was the Biblical Book of Deuteronomy.

Scholars are virtually unanimous in believing that the contents to the missing Kalyptomenos portrayed a shamelessly lustful Phaedra who directly propositions Hippolytus, to the displeasure of the audience.

Scholars generally agree that many of the personalities of Beowulf also appear in Scandinavian sources ( specific works designated in the following section ).

Scholars believe Ezekiel, with his blending of ceremony and vision, heavily influenced the visionary works of Zechariah 1-8.

Scholars such as Goswin König and A. C. Bradley have estimated approximate dates of undated works of Shakespeare by studying the frequency of enjambment.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.

Scholars of the 19th century tended to interpret these titles as the names of distinct works covering separate voyages ; for example, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology hypothesizes a voyage to Britain and Thule written about in " Ocean " and another from Cadiz to the Don river, written about in " Sail Around.

However, the use of adult male falsettos in polyphony, commonly in the alto range, was common in all-male sacred choirs for some decades previous, as early as the mid-16th century, and modern-day ensembles such as the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen maintain the use of male altos in period works.

* The James Joyce Scholars ' Collection includes etexts of several works of Wakean scholarship.

* Scholars on Bilbao-academic works that analyse Bilbao's urban regeneration

Hogarth's other works in the 1730s include A Midnight Modern Conversation ( 1733 ), Southwark Fair ( 1733 ), The Sleeping Congregation ( 1736 ), Before and After ( 1736 ), Scholars at a Lecture ( 1736 ), The Company of Undertakers ( Consultation of Quacks ) ( 1736 ), The Distrest Poet ( 1736 ), The Four Times of the Day ( 1738 ), and Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn ( 1738 ).

Scholars are not entirely convinced that the later character of Gawain is derived from the Welsh Gwalchmei ap Gwyar, but later Welsh writers clearly thought this was the case ; the name " Gwalchmei " consistently substitutes for " Gawain " in Cymric translations and adaptations of foreign works, such as the Welsh Romances of the Mabinogion.

Scholars have speculated that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius who for the first time declared a strict canon of Christian scripture.

Scholars typically divide Plato ’ s works into three periods: the early, middle, and late periods.

Scholars believe that Bach intended the works to be considered as a systematically conceived cycle, rather than an arbitrary series of pieces: Compared to Bach's other suite collections, the cello suites are the most consistent in order of their movements.

Scholars such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas interpreted and systematized Aristotle's works in accordance with Christian theology.

The Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations is a group of 22 Christian scholars, theologians, historians and clergy from six Christian Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church, which works to " develop more adequate Christian theologies of the church's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish people.

He is one of the earliest and most prolific developers of online research resources for the field of Buddhist Studies, being the founder and managing editor of both the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and the H-Buddhism Scholars Information Network, along with having digitized and published numerous reference works.

Scholars, including Patrick F. Quinn and John J. McAleer, have noted parallels between Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and other Poe works.

Scholars have identified that epigrams from this work are scattered throughout the works of St. Augustine.

Her chief works in prose and verse are: The History of Saint Dominic ( 1857 ; enlarged edition, 1891 ); The Life of St Catherine of Siena ( 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1899 ); Christian Schools and Scholars ( 1867 ); The Knights of St John ( 1858 ); Songs in the Night and Other Poems ( 1876 ); and the Three Chancellors ( 1859 ), a sketch of the lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More.

Scholars also cite two works as important precedents for Manet's painting Le déjeuner sur l ' herbe, The Pastoral Concert, 1508, by Giorgione or possibly Titian ( in the Louvre ) and Giorgione's The Tempest, both of which are famous Renaissance paintings.

Scholars have trouble identifying Carey's first works, because he was probably writing anonymously.

Scholars have disagreed on the relationship between Wilkins's play and A Yorkshire Tragedy ; some of have seen one play as a source for the other, or even the work of the same author, while others regard the two dramas as essentially separate works.

Scholars have made this assumption based on the appearance of figures wearing red head-dresses in some other van Eyck works ( e. g., the Portrait of a Man ( Self Portrait?

Scholars generally recognize the restrictions placed on works that have been classified as a certain genre.

Scholars freely made digests or commentaries on other works, which could contain as much or as little original material as the author desired.