Scholars sometimes speculate on hypothetical authors but firm and accepted conclusions have never been reached.

Scholars speculate he was a student of Rabbi David Kimhi whose family fled Spain to Narbonne.

Scholars speculate this was due to the high importance the culture placed on hospitality.

Scholars speculate that large-scale human migration, development of trade, and gifts between royal courts of valuable fighting dogs facilitated the spread of fighting dog breeds.

Scholars speculate that their identity as an independent ethnic group arose through contact with Central Asians, due to whom the Dongxiang converted to Sunni Islam in the 13th century.

Scholars speculate that the Tractatus coislinianus summarises the contents of the lost second book.

Scholars speculate that Poe, who was an influence on Herman Melville, inspired the character of Ahab in Melville's novel Moby-Dick.

Scholars speculate that the choice of Judaism may have been an attempt at maintaining neutrality.

Scholars speculate that Behn had this headdress from her time in Surinam.

Scholars speculate that the name could mean the people on the river Godavari, or it may refer to the Chola of south India.

Scholars speculate that the fair's origins stems from Pre-Christian Ireland, from the Celtic festival of Lughnasa which symbolised the beginning of the harvest season, and that the goat is a pagan fertility symbol.

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum.

Scholars taking issue with the notion that Sherman was employing " total war " include Noah Andre Trudeau.

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

In February 2008, the College eliminated offering financial-aid loans to students from families with incomes under $ 60, 000 ( and for international students and Davis Scholars ) and it lowered the total amount of student loans by one-third ( to a maximum of $ 8, 600 total over four years ) to students from families with incomes between $ 60, 000 and $ 100, 000.

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum ..

The University of Montana ranks 17th in the nation and fifth among public universities in producing Rhodes Scholars, with a total of 28 such scholars.

Scholars estimate that annual contributions to employees of S ESOPs total around $ 14 billion.

Its total student population is 5, 117, attendance rate in 2005 was 92 %, and the Class of 2007 included 52 National Merit finalists, 16 National Achievement finalists, and 12 National Hispanic Scholars.

Scholars suggest that these events might result in ecocide in that they would undermine the capacity of the Earth's biological population to repair itself.

Scholars acknowledge one particular reason for civilian deaths attributed to Germany, the callousness of German military officials in Syria, and systematic hoarding by the population at large.

Scholars have long assumed that the predominant population of the region of Anatolia " in the third millennium was an indigenous pre-Indo-European group called the Hattians.

Scholars disagree about the extent of the native African content of black Christianity as it emerged in 18th-century America, but there is no dispute that the Christianity of the black population was grounded in evangelicalism.

Scholars have disagreed about the historic population of the tribes before European-American contact.

Scholars once thought the site was the capital of the Nazca state but have determined that the permanent population was quite small.

Scholars believe that the language featured elements from the languages native to the area ( pre-Indo-European population ), as well as Dardic and East-Iranian ethnic languages, which are related to the Indo-Aryan family to which all prakrits belong.

The ranking is based on a weighted average including ( 1 ) number of Scholars from the state, ( 2 ) Scholars per state population, ( 3 ) number of colleges in the state with Scholars, and ( 4 ) number of colleges in the state exceeding median Scholars per school based on nationwide data.

Scholars estimate that by the year 1600, the indigenous population of New England had reached 70, 000 – 100, 000.

Scholars estimate that the population of the Inca Empire probably numbered over 16, 000, 000.

In 2008, McCormick established the Rutgers Future Scholars Program in conjunction with a series of initiatives designed to increase the diversity of the university population.

Scholars attribute the actual writing of the gospels in Koine Greek to the Hellenized Christian population of Antioch, with authors such as St. Luke and others.

Scholars believe that during the peak of the Persian Empire, Jews may have comprised as much as 20 % of the population.

Scholars in international law have noted that " in accordance with Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the settlement of Russians in the Baltic States during the period was illegal under international law " (" The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies ").

Scholars have since expanded the idea of this mode of speciation and used it to explain population patterns in other areas of the world, such as Africa, Eurasia, and North America. However this model of speciation remains highly controversial.

The school regularly produces National Merit Finalists and Governor's Scholars from its large population of academically dominant students.

Scholars translated it for him, and he testified that their account fully agreed with Plato's account of Atlantis " or J. V. Luce's suggestion that Crantor sent " a special enquiry to Egypt " and that he may simply be referring to Plato's own claims.

Scholars have proposed that the bridge may have originally represented the Milky Way and have noted parallels between the bridge and another bridge in Norse mythology, Gjallarbrú.

Scholars have debated how Christian antisemitism may have played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust.

As an incentive to students, University Scholars receive a free tuition, a laptop, a " cultural passport " that offers free or reduced-admission to various cultural institutions and venues in New York City, and a $ 7500 expense account that may be used for research and / or study abroad.

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

" Scholars have put forward several theories to explain Papias: perhaps Matthew wrote two gospels, one, now lost, in Hebrew, the other our Greek version ; or perhaps the logia was a collection of sayings rather than the gospel ; or by dialektōi Papias may have meant that Matthew wrote in the Jewish style rather than in the Hebrew language.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

Scholars may debate whether Isidore ever personally embraced monastic life or affiliated with any religious order, but he undoubtedly esteemed the monks highly.

Scholars estimate tens of thousands of Native Americans may have been enslaved by the Europeans, being sold by Native Americans themselves.

Applications must be made at least three months early, and, with only minor exceptions ( e. g., Organ Scholars ), are mutually exclusive for first undergraduate degrees so, in any one year, candidates may only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, not both.

Scholars who have examined these claims tend to believe that while the slave songs may certainly have expressed hope for deliverance from the sorrows of this world, these songs did not present literal help for runaway slaves.

Scholars conjecture that the type pieces may have been cast from a series of matrices made with a series of individual stroke punches, producing many different versions of the same glyph.

Scholars may disagree on which bodily movements fall under this category, e. g. whether thinking should be analysed as action, and how complex actions involving several steps to be taken and diverse intended consequences are to be summarised or decomposed.

Scholars suspect this may be traced to a time when a goat was either the prize in a competition of choral dancing or was that around which a chorus danced prior to the animal's ritual sacrifice.

Scholars have generally concluded that archaeological, linguistic, and documentary evidence shows the Pequot and their ancestors to have been longer in the Connecticut River Valley ; essentially, they may be considered to have been indigenous for centuries before the arrival of Europeans.

Scholars also believe that the name of the individual may originally have been Shammah, and became corrupted under the influence of the Shamgar in the Song of Deborah.

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 have theorized about whether or not these three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether or not Eir may have been originally a healing goddess and / or a valkyrie.

Scholars have proposed that Sif's hair may represent fields of golden wheat, that she may be associated with fertility, family, wedlock and / or that she is connected to rowan, and that there may be an allusion to her role or possibly her name in the Old English poem Beowulf.

Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr ( who is also associated with skiing and appears most frequently in place names in Sweden ), a particular relationship with the jötunn Loki, and that Scandinavia may be related to the name Skaði ( potentially meaning " Skaði's island ") or the name may be connected to an Old Norse noun meaning " harm ".

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.