What she discovered there led her to question many scholarly assumptions about the prophet Zoroaster and his followers.
Drawing upon an expanding corpus of new evidence, Cobb aims to reassess a number of long-standing scholarly assumptions about the nature of Roman participation in this trade.
And it is upending some long-held scholarly assumptions about ancient synagogues and their relationship with the Temple, a center of Jewish pilgrimage and considered the holiest place of worship for Jews, during a crucial period, when Judaism was on the cusp of the Christian era.
With access to these primary sources, Leong is able to upend several scholarly assumptions and beliefs and present a never-before-seen picture of Japanese American struggles-both with an adversarial host country and among themselves-backed by the authority of primary sources.
Understand how new discoveries come about and how they often challenge societal and even scholarly assumptions about the workings of the universe.
At the same time, economic and social restructuring involving devolved planning responsibilities, privatised resource rights, and networked management approaches have undermined previous scholarly and policy assumptions about the character of rural regions.
These problems stem in part from the fact that it has always operated on optimistic assumptions about scholarly integrity, and networks of scholarly acquaintance, that date back to the Middle Ages.
The recent economic crisis and on-going austerity measures thus call into question the implicit assumption in much scholarly work on local immigrant policymaking that this is a steadily growing policy area and that the presence of diversity in the city is increasingly accepted.
His friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, likely also led to the assumption that this scholarly father would be the one to encourage his daughter in writing for publication.
Advances in printing enabled the previously impossible proliferation of published architectural books, which created the commonplace assumption that important and scholarly architects wrote treatises.
Each selection has a preface providing scholarly information and justification for the assumptions and procedures of the present translator.
