Israel/Palestine

And "Although he engaged with non-European matters in a remarkably unprejudiced way, he shared nevertheless some of the common assumptions of European scholars of his time regarding his main research interests, foremost of these being that Hebrew was the oldest language of the world (and that any other Semitic languages such as Arabic were of interest only because they could contribute to the study of it), and that Christianity in its Protestant form was the only true faith."
Not sure how he could tell who lived when he never went there.
Eko.