Scholars now agree that the word " decline " more accurately renders the intended meaning of Spengler's original German word " Untergang " ( often translated as the more emphatic " downfall "; " Unter " being " under " and " gang " being " going ", it is also accurately rendered in English as the " going under " of the West ).

Scholars during the current third quest for the historical Jesus have translated the phrase as " God's imperial rule ", or sometimes " God's domain ", to better grasp its sense in today's language.

Scholars agree that there is a connection between the Gospel of the Hebrews and Matthew, but critical scholars generally consider that the extant Gospel of the Hebrews to be translated from a Greek source text into Hebrew and back into Greek.

Scholars attribute roughly 50 plays to him, many of which have been translated into European languages.

Scholars of all stripes have had to acknowledge the presence of scattered, Aramaic expressions, transliterated and then translated.

He became friends with former President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford ; during his studies there he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.

However, Islamic Scholars claim that the Gospel was translated into Arabic in the post-Islamic period due the difficulty that 16th century Europeans would have in translating early Arabic's defective script into Latin as well as the extreme rarity of written texts in Pre-Islamic Arabia ..

* The International Union of Muslim Scholars ( al-Ittihad al-Alami li-Ulama al-Muslimin, formerly translated as the International Association of Muslim Scholars, IAMS ) presided by Yusuf al-Qaradawi and headquartered at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland

36, August 30, 1996, translated into English as " Conditions for Carrying Out the Holocaust: Comments on Daniel Goldhagen's Book " pages 31 – 43 from Hyping the Holocaust: Scholars Answer Goldhagen edited by Franklin Littel, East Rockaway, NY: Cummings & Hathaway, 1997, ISBN 0-943025-98-2

The works translated include classical Chinese poetry ; such classic works as Dream of the Red Chamber, The Scholars, Mr. Decadent: Notes Taken in an Outing ( 老殘遊記 ); Liu E's The Travels of Lao Can, and some of Lu Xun's stories.

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

Scholars place Antoninus Pius as the leading candidate for fulfilling the role as a friend of Rabbi Judah the Prince.

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.

He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C. and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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

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 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.

* In 2005 Colin and Alma Powell were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.

Now known as The Macaulay Honors College University Scholars Program, it graduated its first class in 2005, attracting students with a mean high school GPA of 3. 5 and SAT scores of 1365 for the Class of 2009.

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.

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.

* The Hayek Fund for Scholars of the Institute for Humane Studies provides financial awards for academic career activities of graduate students and untenured faculty members.

Scholars generally see Miss Sara Sampson and Emilia Galotti as the first bourgeois tragedies, Minna von Barnhelm ( Minna of Barnhelm ) as the model for many classic German comedies, Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ) as the first German drama of ideas (" Ideendrama ").

* Institute for the Study of Genocide / International Association of Genocide Scholars

Scholars generally agree that the theme of divine promise unites the patriarchal cycles, but many would dispute the idea that a single theme ( or theology ) runs through Genesis – a theology of the Abraham cycle or the Jacob cycle or the Joseph cycle might be possible, or a theology of the Yahwist or the Priestly source, but not a single theology or overarching theme for all of Genesis.

Scholars had to decide which hadith were to be trusted as authentic and which had been invented for political or theological purposes.

In August 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity produced a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars ' conclusion that the 1915 killings of Armenians constituted genocide.

*" It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There " -- World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein as He Fights for Tenure ( Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim speak in support of Norman Finkelstein's scholarship and " The Holocaust Industry " specifically.

Scholars of Augustine's work have traditionally understood him to have shared the common view of his educated contemporaries that the Earth is spherical, in line with the quotation above, and with Augustine's famous endorsement of science in De Genesi ad litteram.

Scholars have ranked him favorably on the list of greatest presidents for his ability to set an agenda and achieve all of it.

Scholars assume Gallienus ' efforts were placed with Aureolus, the office who betrayed him, and the defeat of the Herulians was left to his successor, Claudius Gothicus.

Scholars think that, after Tutankhamun returned Egypt to the traditional religion, he moved his closest relatives: father, grandmother, and biological mother, to the Valley of the Kings to be buried with him ( according to the list of figurines and drawings in his tomb ).

Scholars have described Muhammad Hayya as having an important influence on Mohammad Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, encouraging him to denounce rigid imitation of classical commentaries and to utilize informed individual analysis ( ijtihad ).

Scholars have identified Taharqa with Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, who waged war against Sennacherib during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah ( 2 Kings 19: 9 ; Isaiah 37: 9 ) and drove him from his intention of destroying Jerusalem and deporting its inhabitants — a critical action that, according to Henry T. Aubin, has shaped the Western world.

Scholars have noted that the Klingons, not humans, are the ones who quote Shakespeare ; Gorkon claims at one point in the film that " You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Scholars have generally dated him from the end of the 4th to the early part of the 5th century AD.

Scholars suggest that Maimonides instigated the Maimonidean Controversy when he verbally attacked Samuel ben Ali Ha-Levi al-Dastur (" Gaon of Baghdad ") as " one whom people accustom from his youth to believe that there is none like him in his generation ," and he sharply attack the " monetary demands " of the academies.

He makes a decision to take his inventions to the World Council of Scholars when they arrive in his town in a few days ' time, so that they will recognize his talent and allow him to work with them, as well as to make what he sees as a valuable contribution to his fellow men.

Scholars have attempted to identify him with a Macrobius who is mentioned in the Codex Theodosianus as a praetorian prefect of Spain ( 399-400 ), and a proconsul of Africa ( 410 ).

Scholars contend that this Greylock experience transformed him, affirming his ability to do these excursions on his own, following his brother John's death ; and served as a prelude to his experiment of rugged individualism at Walden Pond the following year in 1845.

Scholars have pointed out that Kay's scornful, overly boastful character never makes him a clown, a coward or a traitor, except in the Grail romance Perlesvaus, where he murders Arthur's son Loholt and joins up with the king's enemies.

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, Saints, Sufis and Imams alike, all spoke of him in respectable terms.

In 1990, the Pew Charitable Trusts Scholars Program in Conservation and the Environment honored him as one of the ten environmental scientists and awarded him a 150, 000 dollar grant.

Scholars generally agree on a date in the mid-to late-2nd century AD, since there are two 2nd century documents, the Epistula Apostolorum and Irenaeus ' Adversus haereses, which refer to a story of Jesus ' tutor telling him, " Say beta ," and him replying, " First tell me the meaning of alpha.

Scholars have examined his writing from every possible angle: philosophical, political, psychological, journalistic, its relationship to the medium of film, and why French and Italian readers have found him particularly appealing.

“ Bounding on the head of the elephant of the enemy king, he killed him, as Garuda on the edge of a mountain would kill a serpent .” Scholars have disagreed on whether this language refers to the death of the southern claimant or King Dharanindravarman.