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You did not really define what you meant by 'Bible thumping'. I am not familiar with Schliemann's life story but I am intimately familiar with the bias of academia and it is anything but pro-Christian, if that is what you mean by 'Bible thumping'. I would guess, with some degree of confidence, that both of these German academics are humanists in the strictist sense, even if they do disagree about an archeological dig. Secondly I would point out that clergy at one point in History insisted that the earth was flat even though the Bible clearly teaches otherwise. What is my point? Simply that just because academics or clergy say something is truth does not necessarily imply it is. Ideas must be time tested and the 'Bible' has stood the test of time. Problems evolve when men go off on tangents.

P.S. As I understand his findings, Schliemann was successful because he recognized that myth has some measure of truth in it.

>What is my point? Simply that just because academics or clergy say something is truth does not necessarily imply it is.

Yes, I wonder if that has always been true. Probably. In any case, it presents a sometimes powerful inertia against change or even consideration of new evidence inside both the academy and church. And their mindset teaches the next generation.