For those who may feel lost about the Exodus question, I’ve briefly collected a few helpful links and references here. I’ll start with a bottom-line summary, then provide articles, YouTube lectures, and books below.
Bottom-Line Summary
Those who simply want an evangelical crutch to give assurance of Biblical accuracy will find the gate wide and road broad. I leave such readers to brace their insecurities as they wish. But for those who want to understand the state of knowledge and agreement within the overall community of evidence-based research, I offer the concise summary of the moderate scholar William Dever, given in a 2013 lecture:
To make a long story short, today not a single mainstream biblical scholar or archaeologist any longer upholds Biblical Archaeology’s “Conquest Model.” Not one. Various theories of indigenous origins [for the people of Israel] prevail, in which case there is neither room nor need for a Biblical Exodus — at least of that [Biblical] proportion.
~ William Dever, UC San Diego Exodus Conference, June 1, 2013 (YouTube)
Here also, a brief distillation from Dever’s book.
Thus a “patriarchal era,” an “exodus from Egypt,” and a pan-military “conquest of Palestine,” as portrayed in the biblical narratives, have all now been shown to be essentially nonhistorical, “historicized fiction” at best. And the proof has come… from “secular” archaeologists, Israeli and American, who have no theological axes to grind…
~ William G. Dever, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel
Quotes
YouTube
- William Dever, UC San Diego Exodus Conference, June 1, 2013
- Yale lecture series on Old Testament with Prof. Christine Hayes
Books
- Dever, William G. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001. (Amazon)
- Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Simon and Schuster, Touchstone, 2002. (Amazon)
Jericho Brisance
Jericho Brisance 
Wow, I’ve read ‘The Bible Unearthed’, but wasn’t familiar with Dever. He doesn’t hold any punches in that video and has a lot of interesting information. I may have to check out his books. Thanks for highlighting his talk!
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He is a moderate, disagrees with Minimalists quite a bit, definitely secular, and definitely disagrees with evangelicals. Solid guy. Good book but not as easy a read as F.
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