I have one of the books, but haven't looked at it in awhile and am too lazy to do so now. But from (flawed) memory;
Textual analysis indicates 3 or 4 principal sources for the first 5 books of the old Testament.
In stories about events which supposedly occurred in the 10th or 11th centuries B.C. there are references to customs and practices which characterized the 6th century and were unknown to the earlier time.
There are no references in Egyptian records to the events described in the Bible.
That's all I can remember but it's pretty interesting stuff. Worth looking at.
A few weeks ago, I had the TV on the History Channel. The Naked Archaeologist was on. I was only half paying attention to the program as I was reading a book, and the TV just happened to be on.
This archaeologist (who calls himself the Naked Archaeologist) was in a museum in Egypt examining Egyptian hieroglyphics that dated back right to the same time as the Exodus. These Egyptian hieroglyphics told a story that paralleled the Biblical Exodus. There again, I was only paying half attention to the program so I'm not sure what museum this was.
Hope you haven’t drunk the kool-aid.
Here is a short article from the opposite point of view
http://www.aish.com/societyWork/sciencenature/Archaeology_and_the_Exodus.asp
Also, have you ever read David Rohl’s Pharaohs and Kings? Good read that essentially dispels all that conventional wisdom states concerning Egyptian Chronology.
Right, because if your godlike pharoah got his a$$ kicked by an upstart Israelite slave, you’d certainly put THAT in a prominant place in the records... Don’t think so.