The scantiness of political information and the distinctive arrangement of material preclude the attempt to trace the relative position of the two rivals.
The scantiness of historical tradition makes a final solution impossible, but the study of these years has an important bearing on the history of the later Judaean state, which has been characteristically treated from the standpoint of exiles who returned from Babylonia and regard them selves as the kernel of " Israel."
However, both the recovery of the compilers' aims and attempted reconstructions are precluded from finality by the scantiness of independent historical evidence.
But the former is tainted by venality, which, aggravated by the scantiness of judicial salaries or in some cases by the judge having no salary at all, is almost universal among the administrators of justice.
In some places the oblique Mongolian eye is noticed, and (together with certain Indo-Chinese customs) there is often a scantiness of beard and general "Malay" look, which increases westwards, and seems to imply relations with the archipelago subsequent to the departure thence of the pure Polynesians.
From the scantiness of population the mortality was not great, but it became clear that this is one of the endemic seats of plague.'
If the same cannot be said of the ancient epic poems, that is because of the extreme scantiness of the existing fragments.
Her whole theology centres in the lines " The love of God flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides; Our hearts, their scantiness is such, Bear not the conflict of these rival tides."
He was buried on the 17th in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey with funeral ceremonies criticized by contemporaries as mean and wanting in respect, but the scantiness of which was probably owing to the fact that he had died a Roman Catholic.
But the scantiness of Romano-British remains in Norfolk may be due to the severity with which the Iceni were crushed.
In the powers exercised by the assembly of the citizens or apella we cannot trace any development, owing to the scantiness of our sources.
