"I'm not sure I want to part with it yet."
Check out my comment #47, wherein I discuss the major eruption of Mt. Etna, 1500BCE + - 50 years. If anything is related to Exodus, that one is. Besides it may have been part of a much larger series of tectonic events aroung the Mediterranean and the Sinai. I think Exodus took place during the 18th Dynasty. I think that Hatshepsut may have been involved somewhere in the Moses story, or Amenhotep II, or both at different times. I am still working on those theories. At any rate I don't think Ramases II was involved. [My computer is acting weird, so pardon any double posts.]
It's not awake yet...and, I don't know what I'm doing up at this time.