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25 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,097 Archaeology and Historical Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • More than Conquerors is a valuable resource for clergy and lay Christians seeking a theologically sound synthesis of the early Church’s foundational roots. The book has doctrinal and ethical integrity. Its overarching focus on moral uprightness of the "conquering" Church in a changing world remains a timely and relevant contribution. The book is highly recommended. It provides a concise synthesis of the foundational creeds and structures of the Christian faith. 103 Amao. S, ‘More than Conquerors’ To cite (Harvard): Amao, S. (2026) ‘“More than Conquerors – the Churches and the Early Christians in the Roman Empire from Jerusalem to Chalcedon” by Nigel Scotland. 227 pages Sacristy Press 2026 £20’, Journal of Religion and Public Life, 3(1), pp. 101-104.

    Book Review: More than Conquerors – the Churches and the Early Christians in the Roman Empire from Jerusalem to Chalcedon · 2026 · DOI

  • He fearlessly told his readers how it was in ancient times without worrying that much of what he wrote was based on conjecture or assumptions that, where data were lacking on his subject, it could be supplied from what was known about neighboring civilizations, even though what was known might also have been conjecture.

    Daily Life in Ancient Egypt · 2010

  • Since 1968 the number of inscriptions newly found in Libya has been limited by the limited scale of excavations; but there has been some compensation from the results of surface surveys and from chance discoveries, especially in rural areas.

    Twenty Years of Inscriptions · 1989 · DOI

  • On the global scene again, even the simple voiceless s appears as a relative newcomer, as it is lacking—or demonstrably was lacking6—in numerous languages 1 Besides this, Gordon (§3. o r g / a t U Q L i b r a r y o n J u n e 2 1 , 2 0 1 5 t f THE SEMITIC SIBILANTS spoken by peoples with relatively undeveloped culture;1 and what is more interesting still, wherever s is lacking, the rest of the lingual fricatives—apart from affricates2—are missing also.

    THE SEMITIC SIBILANTS · 1966 · DOI

  • 5), 59, where the NS form could have provisionally filled a gap in the evidence, daldalambs vaja "to seek shelter" Vies 456, 12; 638, 8; KalaSev 262b daldalambs vatta "to give shelter", Ha1Ha1anrm.

    STUDIES IN MODERN SYRIAC · 1961 · DOI

  • In a system in which pow- er was strictly limited to the family, the rivalry among potential candidates intensified. The identity of the courtiers remains elusive, but it becomes clear that they are not a homogeneous group.

    Anatomy of a Coup: Reassessing the Reign of Judah Aristobulus I · 2026 · DOI

  • The scholarly environments outside the main centers of knowledge of the early thirteenth century—Damascus, Cairo and Baghdad—are understudied areas in the scholarship on the intellectual history on this period.

    Traveling Scholars and Their Audition Certificates: An Interpretation of the Status of Late Ayyubid Aleppo (624–658/1227–1260) as a Center of Knowledge · 2025 · DOI

  • Still open issues concern the models, prototypes, and channels of transmission that brought pseudo-epigraphic motifs to south-eastern Italy and the relation intercurrent between Christian themes and Arabic scripts.

    Open Issues and a New Approach to Arabic Pseudo-Inscriptions from Twelfth and Thirteenth-Centuries Basilicata and Apulia · 2022 · DOI

  • The aim of this article is to find a reliable way to assign tombstones to a certain locality and hereby to facilitate their access for further studies of Muslim prosopography, social, economic, and political history.

    The problem of the origin of tombstones from Aswan in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo · 2021 · DOI

  • The earliest phase of the formation of the medieval mortuary rites still remains poorly studied since there are practically no reliably dated sites before the mid-11th century.

    Natural Disasters of 1120s and the Population Movement in the Western Novgorod Land · 2021 · DOI

  • Nevertheless, it was mentioned extremely rarely in the pilgrimage writ­ings of that period, where information about the sites of worship in the city is scarce.

    “Like a faithful daughter she cherishes and nourishes in herself the remnants of Holy Jerusalem, her mother”: Acre as a Center for Church Practices in the 12th and 13th Centuries · 2020 · DOI

  • However, the sanctity of the city as conceived by Muslims which was initially limited to the Islamic sites, has now been extended to other Jewish sites in the city and further to the whole country.

    Gerusalemme: mito e realtà. Oltre le religioni? · 2019

  • Few studies have explored the origins of these feasts, the relationship between their appointed readings and the phenomenon of parallel, or redundant, feasts in fifth-century Jerusalem.

    Stephen the Martyr (Acts VI–VIII) in the Early Jerusalem Lectionary System · 2017 · DOI

  • Using unpublished data from the Khirbet Shemaʿ and Gush Ḥalav excavations, this article shows why traditional print archaeological publications are insufficient as sources of data when writing alternative interpretations of archaeological evidence.

    Debating Ancient Synagogue Dating: The Implications of Deteriorating Data · 2016 · DOI

  • Erasing too many approximations, we were forced to use before, lacking of data issued from in-depth studies made on large corpuses, provided either by large museum collections or from recent excavation stratigraphic contexts.

    SOUTH-EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN LAMPS AND THEIR RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY. FROM TERRA (QUASI) INCOGNITA TO LYCHNOLOGICAL RESEARCHES WHICH CHANGED SEVERAL TYPO-CHRONOLOGICAL AND REGIONAL 'AXIOMS' · 2015 · DOI

  • This article brings to the fore an understudied aspect of ancient Jewish women’s lives: pilgrimage donations to the Jerusalem Temple, made via a procedure called mishkal .

    Pilgrimage and Piety: Rabbinic Women and Vows of Valuation: Mishnah 'Arakhin 5:1, Tosefta 'Arakhin 3: 1, BT 'Arakhin 19a · 2015

  • The limited information from archaeological surveys and the results of excavations, so far largely confined to 平Aqaba, point to a decline in the fortunes of the settled population.

    Southern Jordan in the Fatimid and Seljuq Periods · 1997 · DOI

  • n the desert, which means that food supply is scarce for herbivores, leads in turn to a low population density and wide dispersal of individuals. There is scarcely an exception to this rule, from the little Fennec Fox to the Sand Cat.

    THE HEART OF SHANFARA · 1973 · DOI

  • There still remains to be considered whether the Jews of Elephantine got the idea of writing marriage contracts from the Egyptian or die Babylonian practice.

    ARAMAIC MARRIAGE CONTRACTS FROM ELEPHANTINE<sup>1</sup> · 1958 · DOI

  • 6 However, citizen participation is not limited to the choice of council or 6 Popular voting on local boundary changes is authorized in the Gemeindeord- nungen of Bavaria and North Rhine-West- phalia.

    Arising from the ruins · 1956 · DOI

  • It must remain uncertain whether either of these brothers (they may, of course, be one and the same) is to be identified with the one mentioned in the Cairo text, since his name is missing.

    The Biographical Inscriptions of Nekhebu in Boston and Cairo · 1938 · DOI

  • e d There remain to be considered certain cases of style rather than of grammar, which have some bearing on the charge of enfeebling the ' vigour and incisiveness of the original writing' so often brought against the Received Text.

    ON THE DATE AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE ARABIC SYNAXARIUM OF THE COPTIC CHURCH · 1938 · DOI

  • Whereas the study of the Western and Greek sources has progressed to a point at which it may be said that little more remains to be done, research on the Oriental sources is incredibly backward.

    Notes on the Arabic Materials for the History of the Early Crusades · 1935 · DOI

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