Sentence examples for scholars date from inspiring English sources

Scholars date the writing of the Odyssey to about 675 725 bce.

(Some scholars date the Shang from the mid-18th to the late 12th century bce).

Scholars date its forerunners to the 15th and 16th centuries; it does not date back to the Bronze Age.

This concentrated exposure to Measure for Measure also illuminated for me its place within what most scholars date as Shakespeare's final phase.

Whereas most scholars date the beginnings of Mandaeanism somewhere in the first three centuries ad, the matter of its origin is highly conjectural.

The earliest and finest statuettes of which there is knowledge are assigned to the Okvik culture, which some scholars date to the pre-Christian era, but which others assign to its early centuries.

On this basis Hellenistic scholars dated him to the 9th century bc.

Our curators belong to a line of scholars dating back to the 1770's.

Medieval scholars dated it from the first centuries B.C., but this may have been an attempt to artificially synchronize oral traditions with biblical and classical history.

In the Song of Solomon, which according to scholars dates to either the tenth century B.C. as a Hebrew oral tradition or to the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century B.C., myrrh is referenced seven times making the Song of Solomon the passage in the Old Testament referring to myrrh the most, often with erotic overtones.

The repercussions of this chastisement of the corrupt church were heard throughout Europe, and some scholars still date the end of the Renaissance in Italy to this event.