Used in the plural -- humanities -- it usually becomes "the humanities" or a field of study within university settings, a group of "subjects" scholars study, discuss and debate including history, music, art, languages, philosophy, religion, and literature.
Dubnow was one of the first scholars to subject Ḥasidism to systematic and unbiased study based upon laboriously collected source materials from both the Ḥasidim and their various opponents.
The scholars were subjected to persistent surveillance for decades as MI5 and police special branch officers tapped and recorded their telephone calls, intercepted their private correspondence and monitored their contacts, the files show.
As one historian has recently put it, although Shariah functioned as a constitution, "the constitution was not enforceable," because neither scholars nor subjects could "compel their ruler to observe the law in the exercise of government".
By the theme of a sentence is meant that part that refers to what is already known or given in the context (sometimes called, by other scholars, the topic or psychological subject); by the rheme, the part that conveys new information (the comment or psychological predicate).
Today, scholars debate the subject's real identity, but the arresting image remains in the collection.
When Mr. Yerushalmi wrote "Haggadah and History," he said of his subject: "Scholars have meditated upon it, children delight in it.
There has been a huge shift among scholars on this subject in recent years, and Mr. Morgan is adept at synthesizing their work.
This is the terminology of the building's doormen, who drive into Manhattan from elsewhere and are true scholars on the subject of parking.
On my first day at Butler Library I climbed the familiar grand staircase under the portrait gaze of Dwight D. Eisenhower and entered the stacks to select books by recent scholars on my subject.
