[medved]

"But subsequent investigations of these sites reversed earlier interpretations, and the evidence that originally appeared to confirm the stories concerning Israel's origin was met instead by embarrasing silence; for some this implied the repudiation of the Hebrew tradition....Since the pioneering days ...considerably more archaeological data has been uncovered in Egypt, and yet, even as the discipline of archaeology is about to enter a new millenium, direct evidence for the events and figures of Genesis and Exodus remain elusive."

That's simply a statement coming from somebody who has not expended the energy to keep up with what's happening in the field. Sweeney's two books are a total cure for the problem.

[Seti 1]

That's simply a statement coming from somebody who has not expended the energy to keep up with what's happening in the field

Hoffmeier is a leading scholar in the field and an effective critic of the minimalist position. The subtitle of his book is "The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition". I suppose he could have missed those theories about the pyramids being built by little green men.