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 suspect that the transfer of these regulations to 49th or 50th year was a deliberate attempt to parallel the fact that Shavuot is 50 days after Passover, and follows seven weeks of harvest ; this parallel is regarded as significant in Kabbalah.

Scholars suspect that it simply means priest, either as a loan word from the Minaean lawi ' u, meaning priest, or by referring to those people who were joined to the ark of the covenant.

Scholars suspect the former explanation to be the more likely name for a tribe, though some scholars have proposed a third etymology-that it derives from ish Sokar, meaning man of Sokar, in reference to the tribe originally worshipping Sokar, an Egyptian deity.

Scholars suspect that Ligurios was a pale yellowish mineral, and although Chrysoprase now refers to a specific gemstone-Chrysoprase-which is generally apple-green in colour, in earlier times it referred to gems of a yellowish leek-green, such as Peridot ; Chrysoprase literally means golden leek.

Scholars suspect that these descriptions of tzaraath, where it applies to skin conditions, actually refer to a number of different skin diseases, which, owing to the undeveloped state of medical science at that period, were not distinguished.

Scholars suspect that some other interpolations are present: including the whole of chapter 7, and some additions, difficultly determinable in extension, in 29: 3-13.

Scholars have often believed that Ammianus ' work was intended for public recitation for two reasons: the overwhelming presence of accentual clausulae, which implies that it was intended to be read aloud ; and epistle 1063 of Libanius to a Marcellinus of Rome which refers to public recitations.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

Scholars have debated whether Athanasius ' list in 367 was the basis for the later lists.

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 speculated about the bilingual literary structure of Daniel-Chapters 2 through 7 in Aramaic, the rest in Hebrew.

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 accept that Brahui could only have migrated to Balochistan from central India after 1000 AD.

Scholars have interpreted this to mean that Banquo has been dreaming of murdering the king as Macbeth's accomplice in order to take the throne for his own family, as the Three Witches prophesied to him.

Scholars have worked to develop a periodization of Angkorian architectural styles.

Scholars speculate that the total Araucanian population may have numbered 1 million at most when the Spaniards arrived in the 1530s ; a century of European conquest and disease reduced that number by at least half.

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

Dr. Gartzke, of Columbia University states, " Scholars like Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Richard Cobden, Norman Angell, and Richard Rosecrance have long speculated that free markets have the potential to free states from the looming prospect of recurrent warfare.

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

Scholars have identified the Assakenoi and Aspasioi clans of Kunar and Swat valleys as a section of the Kambojas.

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

Scholars have also suggested that the Book of Revelation uses combat myth imagery in its descriptions of cosmic conflict.

Scholars such as J. N. Mohanty, Claire Ortiz Hill, and Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, among others, have argued that Husserl's so-called change from psychologism to Platonism came about independently of Frege's review.

Scholars such as Fannie Ratchford and Derek Roper have attempted to piece together a Gondal storyline and chronology from these poems.

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

Scholars often have difficulty assessing whether Romans is a letter or an epistle:

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 William M. Reynolds and Julie A. Webber have written that Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith tradition, was a " fighter for women's rights " that was " in no way misogynistic " in contrast to some of his contemporaries.

Scholars differ in their explanation of these differences, and no consensus has emerged.

Scholars disagree whether anyone no longer eligible to be elected president could be elected vice president, pursuant to the qualifications set out under the Twelfth Amendment.

Scholars from the Free Methodist Church of North America had a varied response from it " constitutes no threat " to " most accurate ever.

Scholars have tried to discern the exact nature of the events that gave rise to the story, but they have reached no definitive conclusions.

Scholars interpret this as the case where goods are no longer used in the manner intended by the founder.

Scholars contend that there is no authority for any of this except Geoffrey's fertile imagination.

While the number of Foundation Scholars remains fixed at seventy, there is in theory no limit on the number of Non-Foundation scholars.

* Monfasani, John, ' Platonic paganism in the fifteenth century ', in: John Monfasani, Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and Other Émigrés, ( Aldershot, 1995 ), no.

After 10 years, Lord Eldon, then Lord Chancellor, ruled in 1805, " There is no authority for thus changing the nature of the Charity, and filling a School intended for the purpose of teaching Greek and Latin with Scholars learning the German and French languages, mathematics, and anything except Greek and Latin.

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Scholars believe the Mass was not performed in its entirety until the mid-19th century ; according to Bach scholar John Butt, there is " no firm evidence of a complete performance before that of the Riedel-Verein in Leipzig in 1859 ".

" Scholars have noted that the notion of the " disembodied existence of a soul in bliss " is not in accordance with a Hebrew world view: " While Hebrew thought world distinguished soul from body ( as material basis of life ), there was no question of two separate, independent entities.

Durham Scholars have for more than a century worn a full-length gown with wrist-length sleeves and no opening on the seam.

Scholars and historians have found no evidence that Beethoven ever committed a rape or harbored an intense urge to do so.

Scholars have pointed out that these five prophets exemplify the early prophetic missions: The prophet would be sent to his community ; the community would pay no attention to his warning and would instead threaten him with punishment ; after years of preaching, God would ask him to leave his community and his people would be subsequently destroyed in a punishment.

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 who chose to investigate the Underground State were also confronted with the issue of its uniqueness ( no country or nation has ever created a similar institution ), and hence, the problem of defining it.

There are no high schools within the community's boundaries but nearby high schools include Far Rockaway High School, Scholars ' Academy, which also contains middle school grades, and Beach Channel High School, all located on the Rockaway Peninsula.

Scholars typically claim that in order to end rape and violence against women, men must become aware of these issues, otherwise there is no hope for stopping rape.

Scholars noted that the text gives no indication that the destruction of the Temple had already occurred at the time of the book's composition.

Scholars have debated the theme of American exceptionalism, the theory that British and European conservatism has little or no relevance to American traditions.

Scholars distinguish between eleven and fifteen dialects, which may not be mutually intelligible when not adjacent, but there are no clear-cut distinctions between them at our present state of knowledge.