Original sentence: Despite these studies, these critical points were revived in the second half of the 20th century and many Western scholars continue to maintain the arguments raised by earlier scholars.Thomson's dating of Movses and his approach in evaluating the author's work was criticized when the English translation of History of Armenia appeared in 1978.Thomson, the former holder of the chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the translator of several classical Armenian works, is one of the foremost of modern scholars to expound their conclusions
Edited sentence: In the opinion of Aram Topchyan, these critical points were revived in the second half of the 20th century, however in 1940 A.Sarkissian described the dispute about the dating of Moses of Chorene as ongoing and cited scholars from 1920s and 1930s, who questioned the 5th century dating.Thomson's dating of Movses and his approach in evaluating the author's work was criticized in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora when the English translation of History of Armenia appeared in 1978.Thomson, the former holder of the chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the translator of several classical Armenian works, is one of the foremost of modern scholars to challenge the 5th century dating.Though it has traditionally been assumed that Moses of Chorene wrote in the fifth century, yet the earliest reference to his work is made by John Catholicos in his History of Armenia, a work written in the third decade of the tenth century