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

Scholars are also divided over the cause of mercantilism's end.

Scholars are divided about whether to seek a different and more powerful role for this amendment.

Scholars are divided as to when Montanus first began his prophetic activity, having chosen dates varying from c. AD 135 to as late as AD 177.

Scholars of classical Western rhetoric have divided figures of speech into two main categories: schemes and tropes.

Scholars remain divided on whether the copper scroll represents real burials, and, if so, the total measurements and the owners.

Scholars agree that historically Champa was divided into several regions or principalities spread out from South to North along the coast of modern Vietnam and united by a common language, culture and heritage.

Scholars are divided on the question of whether the " Longer Ending " was created deliberately to finish the Gospel of Mark ( as contended by James Kelhoffer ) or if it began its existence as a freestanding text which was used to " patch " the otherwise abruptly ending text of Mark.

Scholars today remain divided between two approaches:

Scholars are divided on the question of Burke ’ s association with the book thereafter, although many suggest that he continued to contribute to the history section and that he played a significant role in overseeing The Annual Register ’ s compilation until the 1790s, even though much of the editorial work by this stage was being done by others.

Scholars are divided on the value of the Suetonius ' reference.

Scholars are divided over the issue about the stele's authenticity.

Scholars have traditionally divided the history of the library into five periods.

Scholars have been divided about the nature of the play's authorship.

Scholars may differ on the way the region is divided.

Scholars who support this derivation are divided between those who believe the Carpi gave their name to the mountain range ( i. e. the name means " mountains of the Carpi ") and those who claim the reverse.

Scholars are also divided as to whether the principle should be regarded as a factual claim, open to empirical testing ; an analytic truth, obvious from the nature of language and meaning ; or a methodological principle to guide the development of theories of syntax and semantics.

Scholars today remain divided on the merits of the electronic barrier system and the efficacy of the bombing campaigns that it directed.

Scholars are divided over the nature of the relationship, if any, between El Rukn and the Moorish Science Temple of America.

Scholars are divided on the issue of whether these painters are the same person.

Scholars are divided in opinion whether the name denotes a historical human teacher of Asaṅga or the bodhisattva Maitreya.

Scholars break the book of Amos up into three sections.

Scholars therefore divide the book into three parts:

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

Scholars agree that the introductory and concluding sections of the book, the framing devices, were composed to set the central poem into a prose " folk-book ", as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it.

Scholars categorize the genre of chronicle into two subgroups: live chronicles, and dead chronicles.

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 note that Cranmer had moved, however moderately at this stage, into identifying with certain Lutheran principles.

Scholars group the Egyptian language into six major chronological divisions:

Scholars are not in agreement about whether the calendars used by the Jews before the Babylonian captivity were solar ( based on the return of the same relative position between the sun and the earth ) or lunisolar ( based on months that corresponded to the cycle of the moon, with periodic additional months to bring the calendar back into agreement with the solar cycle ) like the present-day Hebrew calendar.

Scholars have speculated that the eruption of the Xitle volcano may have prompted a mass emigration out of the central valley and into the Teotihuacan valley.

Scholars generally fall into one of two main camps: an " early camp " favoring a date for the " core " of between the years 50 and 100, before or approximately contemporary with the composition of the canonical gospels and a " late camp " favoring a date in the 2nd century, after composition of the canonical gospels.

Scholars have found that toponyms provide valuable insight into the historical geography of a particular region.

The Seminar began by translating the gospels into modern American English, producing what they call the " Scholars Version ," first published in The Complete Gospels.

The Queen's Scholars have privileged access to the House of Commons gallery, said to be a compromise recorded in the Standing Orders of the House in the 19th century, to stop the boys from climbing into the Palace over the roofs.

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

At the peak of the Tang Dynasty's vitality, Chinese Buddhism produced numerous spiritual masters. Scholars classified Chinese buddhism into 7-15 schools., commonly into 10 schools (: zh: 汉传佛教十宗 ).

Scholars are developing an algae-based biofuel that consumes greenhouse gases in its production and are working to patent nanospring technology that would fit into an ordinary gas tank, solving the problem of hydrogen storage.

In 2010 a group of Islamic Scholars in Mardin argued that Ibn Taymiyya's fatwa was misprinted into an order to " fight " the ruler who is not applying Islamic law, but rather it means to " treat ".

Scholars Diane Blair and Jay L. Barth continue: “ As long as Rockefeller led the Arkansas Republicans, the party had a progressive, reformist cast, and those whom Rockefeller had brought into the party continued to dominate party offices and shape presidential preferences until 1980 ,” when the nomination and election of Ronald W. Reagan of California as president and Frank D. White as governor moved power within the state GOP “ sharply to the right .” Ultimately the growth of the Republican Party was slower in Arkansas than in the other southern states in the post-segregation era.

Scholars believe that the Hephthalites constituted a second " Hunnish " wave who entered Bactria early in the fifth century AD, and who seem to have driven the Kidarites into Gandhara.