Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

Scholars believe Ezekiel, with his blending of ceremony and vision, heavily influenced the visionary works of Zechariah 1-8.

Scholars who believe Paul wrote Titus date its composition from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete ( Titus 1: 5 ).

Scholars who support this theory believe that a famous letter from Pliny to Emperor Trajan concerning the delation of Christians reflects the situation faced by the addressees of this epistle.

Scholars believe that Hildegard used her Lingua Ignota to increase solidarity among her nuns.

Scholars and observers who do not believe that Islam is a political ideology include Fred Halliday, John Esposito and Muslim intellectuals like Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.

Scholars believe their name derives possibly from Proto-Germanic forms of " march " (" frontier, border ") and " men ".

Scholars believe it was characteristic of the Jews in Babylon during the Amoraic and Geonic periods, and likewise in early medieval Spain, shown by their engagement with both Muslim and Christian society.

Scholars contend that Macbeth is one of the most overwhelming pieces of evidence against the Oxfordian position ; the vast majority of critics believe the play was written in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot.

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

Scholars believe that the commentary which appears under Rashi's name in those books was compiled by the students of Rabbi Saadiah of the Rhine, who incorporated material from Rashi's yeshiva.

Scholars believe the language of Ebla to be among the oldest known written Semitic languages.

Scholars now believe that at most 27 million Soviet citizens died during the war, including some 8. 7 million soldiers who fell in battle against Hitler's armies or died in POW camps.

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.

Some members of Scholars for 9 / 11 Truth believe that the man in this videotape is not Osama bin Laden at all, citing differences in weight and facial features, along with his wearing of a gold ring, which is forbidden by Muslim law, and writing with his right hand although bin Laden is left-handed.

Scholars suggest the story of Ustad Isa was born of the eagerness of the British in the 19th century to believe that such a beautiful building should be credited to a European architect.

Scholars have dated it to some time in the 15th century BC and believe that it illustrates an important concept expressed in Nordic Bronze Age mythology.

Scholars believe that the these rulings are derived from the decision in regard to the Amalekite spoil, rather than vice versa.

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 believe that the people offered human sacrifices as part of a dedication when buildings were expanded or constructed.

Scholars believe that the fight between Cuchulainn and Ferdiad is a late addition to the Táin, originating not earlier than the eleventh century and drawing on earlier episodes in the story.

Scholars also believe that the decapitation and destruction of Coyolxauhqui is reflected in the pattern of warrior ritual sacrifice.

Scholars believe that the recognition of the Lublin Government by the Western powers meant acceptance of predominant Soviet influence in postwar Poland.

Scholars such as Christopher Snyder believe that during the 5th and 6th centuries — approximately from 410 AD when Roman legions withdrew, to 597 AD when St. Augustine of Canterbury arrived — southern Britain preserved a sub-Roman society that was able to survive the attacks from the Anglo-Saxons and even use a vernacular Latin for an active culture.

Scholars generally believe that the narrative was in fact, written by Perpetua.

Wellesley offers housing for Davis Scholars as well, though not for their children or spouses, which is a point of frequent debate on campus.

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.

For example, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been supporting an academic major called the University Without Walls-UMass Amherst which is dedicated to helping non-traditional students complete their bachelor's degrees since 1971. Women's colleges also offer programs for older women who would like to return to school, such as Agnes Scott College's Irene K. Woodruff return-to-college program, Mount Holyoke College's Frances Perkins Program, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College's Women's External Degree Program, Simmons College ( Massachusetts )' s Dorothea Lynde Dix Scholars Program, Smith College's Ada Comstock Scholars Program, Bryn Mawr College's Katherine McBride Scholars Program, and Wellesley College's Davis Degree Program.

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Scholars have disaggregated military power projection into nine different aspects based on the political goals being sought and the level of force employed: Four of these relate to the employment of " soft " military power ( securing sea lanes of communication, non-combatant evacuation operations, humanitarian response, and peacekeeping ) and five are primarily concerned with " hard " military power ( showing the flag, compellence / deterrence, punishment, armed intervention and conquest.

Scholars debate whether these two accounts can be reconciled or not, and some view the narratives as non-historical .< Some scholars view the discussion of historicity as secondary, given that gospels were primarily written as theological documents rather than chronological timelines.

Scholars are almost unanimous in considering the works of the Appendix spurious primarily on grounds of style, metrics, and vocabulary.

Funding for the Society of Yeager Scholars comes primarily from private money.

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 say she did notice some geographical features, but " Sacagawea ... was not the guide for the Expedition, she was important to them as an interpreter and in other ways.

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 now tend to agree that modern Chinese literature did not erupt suddenly in the New Culture Movement ( 1917 – 23 ).

Scholars of the Chicago School originally sought to answer a single question: how did an increase in urbanism during the time of the Industrial Revolution contribute to the magnification of contemporary social problems?

Scholars continue to disagree about the merits of this claim, though assuming that if Gauden wrote it, he had access to Charles's papers when he did so.

Scholars generally call this troupe the Red Bull company, as the actors called themselves when in London ; when touring, as they did frequently, they styled themselves the King's Players.

Major Arab Sunni parties such as the Iraqi Islamic Party and the Association of Muslim Scholars, boycotted the elections, as did some smaller groups such as the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq.