The Bible and the Hittites, Exploding another 'Biblical Archaeology' Myth.

was it not true that troy was also consided legend until they found the remains of it?

i tend to agree that people do tend to take the bible as complete and utter truth,then comes the debate about devinly written or alot of the writters imaganation or own beliefs, if it was written by man then can we not come to the assumption that he or they have added alot of twisted half truths which as people with a bit of wisdom will know our history is full of land raiders that destroy all knowen referances to that countrys origanal people or twist their history to make them out as villians etc

according to arceoligists the remains is in the pricise location that homer said it was so i presume that they have reserched it propely before they claimed that it definetly was, but that is like alot of greek legends (and probably bible stories as well)is based upon events that did take place but has,over time,been twisted or biased towards one side of the story.so i think you can safly assume that the bible as with alot of different countrys legends and ancient stories are based on actual events be them being greatly exsagerated or biased towards one side

can't say myself ether,the location is correct but as you say their is evidence of at least 7 different ocupations at the site but like i said before all we can safly say i suppose is that ancient legends etc is at least has an element of truth to it....... we have completly de railed the origanal topic havent we.... and thank you pleasure to be able to put my 2 cents worth in

on the hittites i do not know to much about them but i will do some research on it and if the forum is still open when im a bit more knowledgeable i will get back

from what i can gather the hitites mentioned in the bible are said to dwell(according to the bible) "in the mountains" and "towards the north" of Canaan ” this does match the general direction and geography of the original Hittite empire,so presumably you could say that they could be one in the same,and remembering that the bible as well as alot of written history is most probably a little in accurate because it was remember written by man and we dont know what sort of influances or bias was involved when it was written