[LostTribe]

>Please define what you mean by 'Bible thumping'.

Oh, me. I suspected that would wake someone up. {ggg}

As I recall the story of Schliemanns life he was not only accosted intellectually by every academic who didn't share his ambition and insight, but by asst clergy who opposed all digging and searching and anything scientific that might turn up something contrary to church policy. (As in maybe the earth is not the center of the universe and maybe it isn't really flat.) Schliemann fought a great variety of "established and settled facts" as well as "establishments" as he brought the science of Archeology into being.

[MoGalahad]

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.