For those who want proof of the exodus

[athrock]

Yes, Simon.  Which is not to say that there cannot be some religious scholars with integrity.  This example, from an earlier thread, provides a stellar example of such.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-24217-po...#pid608332

Between 1965 and 1972 Joseph Callaway, an American archaeologist and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor who had studied method with Kenyon, reopened the investigation. And he confirmed Marquet-Krause's results beyond doubt. To his credit, he acknowledged the excavations of Ai as a major blow to the "conquest theory." He put it this way in 1985":

For many years, the primary source for the understanding of the settlement of the first Israelites was the Hebrew Bible, but every reconstruction based upon the biblical traditions has floundered on the evidence from archaeological remains....(Now) the primary source has to be archaeological remains.

Moreover, Callaway -- a southern gentleman of great moral character-- took early retirement from his very conservative seminary rather than risk being the cause of theological embarrassment.

I doubt that we will see anything like Callaway's integrity exhibited by these clods.

Or Callaway may have been wrong. Like Kenyon.

"An alternative proposal is that the Bible's chronology of events is accurate, and the Biblical Ai is not to be located at et-Tell, but a different site entirely. Dr. Bryant Wood has proposed that Ai should instead be located at the site of Kirbet el-Maqatir arguing that the evidence for this site being Ai is stronger than at et-Tell.[1] David Livingstone has also suggested Khirbet Nisya as another possible location for Ai." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et-Tell