For those who want proof of the exodus

[Pat Mustard]

So...see above.  The narratives you're discussing are considered to be establishment legends, myths, or epics.  The connection between Joseph expressed in these comments (and in the documentary) and any existent ruins are tortured beyond belief...but that's irrelevant, we actually do expect those narratives to refer to something.  If the authors had placed the events in a specific time, they would use details that they knew of that time (or, more accurately in this case..details that they -thought- they knew of the time) to provide a context for their narrative.  This appears to be -exactly- what the authors did...mistakes and all, when settling upon the narrative.  That it is placed within a timeframe that will not allow it is simply an effect of their ignorance as to chronology and the details of the world in which they placed the narrative.  If it happened some other time (slide the timeline)..then the details in the account are still plainly wrong and we are still discussing a non-factual narrative.

Exactly, you even see it in modern culture the whole time. Ever watch a 1950s 1960s era film about King Arthur. The arms, armour, living spaces (specifically castles), mannerisms and mores all come not from the period shortly after the fall of the Principate in the West, but from the high Middle Ages. This is for two reasons, that is when the legends originated and they were part of the genesis of the Medieval Romance genre (which often took past events or legends and put the essentially in then modern settings) and partly because culture at that time (post WW2) was geared to see anything between the fall of Rome and the advent of gun dominated warfare as being, castles, plate armour, horses and for the women wimples.

You're getting the exact same kind of thing with the genesis-exodus creation mythology.