Sentence examples for scholars dating from inspiring English sources

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

Scholars dating to Tertullian, in 2nd century Carthage, have written about a teeming population being "burdensome" to the world.

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

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).

Most scholars date the Great Sphinx to the 4th dynasty and affix ownership to Khafre.

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

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

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.

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

The standard Haggadah, which some scholars date to a ninth-century text, is not considered by most Jews to be static, although it has basic liturgical requirements.