Sentences with phrase «modern historians agree»

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

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Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed, [5][6][7][8] and biblical scholars and cla ssical historians regard theories of his non-existence as effectively refuted.

«Historians including Lucien Febvre agree atheism in its modern sense did not exist before the end of the seventeenth century.