“The announcement will reopen the debate about how much of the Old Testament is myth and how much is history.”
I’ll give them a clue: it’s ALL history.
Yes but the dating schemes and the sequencing of various Biblical narratives is a bit of a hairball. Read Immanuel Velikovsky’s “Ages in Chaos”.
I’ve seen some film by Paul Maier who is a Bible historian. He has many books. http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Paul+L+Maier&source=an&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=4&ct=title&cad=author-navigational