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 have increasingly questioned Paul's authorship and attributed the letter to an early follower instead.

Scholars traditionally view Thucydides as recognizing and teaching the lesson that democracies need leadership, but that leadership can be dangerous to democracy.

The university is also a member of Mortar Board national honors society for college seniors, and participates with the National Society of Collegiate Scholars in recognizing the academic achievements of first-and second-year students.

Since the Dinner Program is a balance of recognizing adult honorees and the Scholars, the morning ceremony provides the opportunity to focus solely on the children.

Scholars think that cultivation research focuses more on the effects rather than who or what is being influenced.

Scholars have suggested that, given the low alcoholic content of early wine, its effects may have been due to an additional entheogenic ingredient in its sacramental form.

Scholars have noted that in some situations, people don ’ t always estimate greater media effects for others than for themselves.

Other Scholars, such as Elizabeth Dunn and Julia Elyachar have claimed that neoliberalism requires and creates its own form of governmentality.

Scholars theorize the form was originally used in Ionian dirges, with the name " elegy " derived from the Greek ε, λεγε ε, λεγε-" Woe, cry woe, cry!

Scholars of Mesopotamian mythology, however, suggest that Adapa was likely associated with fishing and depicted in half-fish form many centuries before the story of Jonah appeared.

Scholars are uncertain of the origin of the Proto-Germanic form itself.

Scholars have theorized that the Vanir may be connected to small pieces of gold foil, gullgubber, found in Scandinavia at some building sites from the Migration Period to the Viking Age and occasionally in graves, have asked whether the Vanir originally represented pre-Indo-European deities or Indo-European fertility gods, and have theorized a form of the gods as venerated by the pagan Anglo-Saxons.

Scholars suggest that the frontier agreement was not of the form of an " executed clause " which usually caters for sovereign boundary demarcation and which cannot be unilaterally repudiated.

Scholars who have studied the history of the Hebrew calendar are in general agreement ( and there is much evidence for this in the Talmud itself and in other rabbinic sources ) that in practice, the evolution of the calendar into its present form was a gradual process spanning several centuries from the first to about the eighth or ninth century CE.

In 2009, UNC Charlotte received the largest single donation from a private source, when The Leon Levine Family Foundation donated $ 9. 3 million to the university to form the Levine Scholars program.

After Wen Shi died, the dragons were overwhelmed by sadness and took human form, becoming known as the Five Scholars ( 五秀才 ), who buried her on the northern side of Zhu Mountain ( 珠山 ).

Scholars and historians believe it to have originally been an island, which later joined the shore to form a sand isthmus.

Scholars maintain that such fact means that Chodagangadev was a devotee of this god, and as the god's name is preserved in Tekkali in this early period, it seems likely that " Dadhivaman " ( or the tribal form of this Sanskritised name ) was the original name of the wooden god.

Scholars of the stamp of Raynouard ( 1761 – 1863 ), of Aix, occupied themselves with the brilliant literary traditions of the Middle Ages ; newspapers sprang up ( the Provençal Bouil-Abaisso, started by Désanat, and the bilingual Lou Tambourin et le ménestrel, edited by Bellot, both in 1842 ); poets banded together and collected their pieces in volume form ( thus, the nine iroubaire who published Lou Bouquet prouvençaou in 1823 ).

Scholars within the legal and sociological studies field of critical race theory, such as Cheryl Harris and George Lipsitz, have argued that " whiteness " has historically been treated more as a form of property than as a racial characteristic: In other words, as an object which has intrinsic value that must be protected by social and legal institutions.

Scholars are more certain these are later works because of their use of cyclic form.

* This is also the plural form used by The Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association

Scholars are suspicious of the fact that Úlfljótur's first two successors have been assigned a period in office of exactly 20 summers each, but from Þorkell máni on, the chronology is probably correct ; names are given in their modern Icelandic form.

This is told in the form of a story of Three Scholars of Sama.

The Posse Foundation is an American nonprofit organization that identifies, recruits, and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams called " Posses " of 10 to 12 Posse Scholars.