Sentence examples for textual scholar from inspiring English sources

On a more sombre note, the death in March of internationally recognized textual scholar Iraj Afshar in Tehran was the first of several literary losses in 2011.

Occasionally a familiar sharp line - "the air bites shrewdly" - goes missing, but only a textual scholar is likely to feel severely deprived by this clearing of the undergrowth.

Textual scholar David Hering, of the University of Liverpool, estimates that two-thirds to three-fourths of the finished book is present in these sheets.

He observes her raking the surface of the water with her binoculars "like a textual scholar: it was as though she were puzzling over a codex that had been authored by the earth itself".

Whole books have been devoted, without resolving the question, to the mystery of whether Shakespeare composed the two parts of "Henry IV" as separate plays or (as the late textual scholar Harold Jenkins argued) began writing a single play and then realized, halfway through what is now the first part, that he would need two parts to contain its richness.

"The self-contempt that Golding defined as the clue to his character pays dividends for Carey the textual scholar, who here unearths a series of early drafts for published novels or extracts from projects unjustifiably abandoned," Peter Conrad wrote in the Observer.

According to textual scholars, the earliest reference to Hindu pilgrimage is in the Rigveda (c. 1500 bce), in which the "wanderer" is praised.

Their quarrels, couplings, characteristics, attitudes and sacred texts are interpreted and re-interpreted according to the special interests and personal politics of textual scholars, literary critics and biographers.

Most commonly over the years, she has shared her microphone with religious ethicists (modern interpreters of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Reinhold Niebuhr), textual scholars (Ellen F. Davisof Duke Divinity School), and scientists ruminating about the intersection of divinity and humanity (the physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne).

Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, is the "summation of thirty years' intense engagement by textual scholars Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon verifying, codifying, collating and clarifying the 20,000 pages of notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs".

Early in the twentieth century, a Chinese student of John Dewey (1859 1951) at Cornell, Hu Shi (1891 1962), initially followed the empirical, textual Qing scholars in viewing Zhu as a scholastic metaphysician.