Dear Anonymus,
your comment makes an extended reply necessary. But before dipping into moral arguments for musings that Exodus and the like are just myths, one has to calculate the historical dates of these events with the help of the numbers given in the bible. Since i want to argue scientifically and not emotionally in the first place, this is necessary. Only after such an investigation into the scientific evidence it makes sense to me to dip into moral or anthropological arguments.
Salomo's temple in Jerusalem was destroyed 586 B.C. by the Babylonians. About the life of Nebukadnezar we own many cuneiform writings with observations of 5 planets and the moon. There are about 30 informations about these planet constellations. With this we can date the time of Nebukadnezar absolutely. The result is the 19. year of Nebukadnezar (see 2 Kings, Chapter 25, 8).
Take the date of 586 B.C. as absolute historical date for the destruction of Salomo's temple. And now calculate back with the numbers contained within the bible. Eventually you now have to read some bible-texts, because we first need some numbers from first and second chronicles as well as first and second book of Kings. Add all the numbers for the kings after Salomo and you end up with 390 years. These 390 years are additionally mentioned in Hesekiel 4,4. So far we derive with that at the division of the 12 tribes after Salomo's death at 976 B.C. (586 + 390).
Then you have to read Acts 13, 21. Saul was king for 40 years. Then 2. Kings 2, 11, David was king for 40 years. Then read 2. chronicles 9, 30 where it is stated that Salomo was king for 40 years. The result is 120 years, the monarchy of Israel where these kings ruled over all 12 tribes.
Now we are in the year 1096 B.C., the year 1 of Saul. Before Saul, Israel was reigned by the Judges (book of Judges). This time period lasted about 450 years (see Acts 13, 18-20). We now arrive at 1546 B.C. and go further back with the capture of Kanaan which lasted 6 years (4. Moses, 9 and Joshua 14). With this and the walk in the desert (40 years) we arrive at 1592 B.C. (1546 + 6 + 40). And finally you have to take the 300 years in the book of Judges 11, 26 (from Jair till the last year of the desert walk) then you can derive the X for the capture of Kanaan forward until the start of the times of the Judges (14 years).
We now arrive at 1606 B.C. for the Exodus from Egypt ((1546 + 6 + 14 + 40) - much earlier than for example Israel Finkelstein and others claim. Let's look at the difference:
1606 (biblical cronology) - 1230 (Finkelstein and others) = 376 years
For professional archeologist and ägyptologists, these 376 years of difference may be very familiar to them. It was the British ägyptologist David Rohl who proposed in his book "A test of time" that one has to push the date for the Exodus some 380 years backwards, because for him, most of the cornerstone dates of ägyptology aren't tenable anymore. Of course, people like Finkelstein disagree and I think Finkelstein as well as Rohl are right: One hasn't to push the date for the Exodus backwards arbitrarily, one only has to properly read the bible. Maybe both of them haven't done that, at least Finkelstein claims that what the bible states are no more than fairy tales. It is no wonder that he concludes that at 1230 B.C. there was no such city as Jericho. Because Jericho was destroyed at about 1566 B.C. and until then never rebuilt again properly with a city wall (read this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho if you like).
