God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[The Grand Nudger]

That's the point, we have very accurate histories on the middle east without referencing the bible. There are points in the bible where we see examples of current or past events being used in the narrative. We expect to see this, because the bible was written by human beings, the stories were told by human beings etc. What I'm trying to impress upon you is that any work of literature is likely to have references to events that happened within human memory, that does not make them a reference source. It is the bibles track record of obfuscating the actual history of events that make it worthless as a historical reference.

You are assuming that it has value as reference, at least in the story of exodus, however embellished. It does not. It names Kings, describes regions, but is otherwise unconnected to the factual record. The only instances of substantiated fact are used as literary devices, to establish authenticity (which it fails to do nonetheless). The writers of the bible were not concerned with the actual historical record, nor could they have been (because the scientific ability and technology that allows us to determine these things today was sorely lacking in the bronze age). It is a book of prophecy, firstly, with a creation myth as an introduction. We used to believe it was a prophecy made after the fact. We now however have reason to believe that the account of Exodus, and the Kingdom that followed are revisionist history.