Augustine, who was a very great classical scholar, said in his Confessions (6:9) that he had found in the great classical thinkers some kind of parallel for everything in the Gospels except this one statement, «The Word became flesh.» (religion-online.org)
Classical scholars of the day thought they saw in the literature of Greece and Rome puzzling suggestions of this sort of descent. (firstthings.com)
Classical scholars from Münster are excavating one of the few sites of ancient Roman Syria in Turkey that are currently accessible as a result of the political situation in the Middle East. (sciencedaily.com)