the so fallible Bible

[xpastor]

Apparently you didn't bother to read the references (no surprise there) in the wiki link, which include
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Scarre
He's a PhD and head of a university archaeology department.

There's also this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bulliet
He has a PhD from Harvard and is a "professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society."

So you were saying something about Christian apologists?

I am not questioning the scholarly credentials of Scarre or Bulliet. Likewise, the credentials of Finkelstein and Silberman are impeccable. The book by the latter two (2001) is several years after Scarre (1993) and Bulliet (1975) so it is plausible that they had reasons for disagreeing. I don't have their book in my personal library, so I can't check immediately.

You are going on and on about the camels, which suggests to me that you lack any response to the many other substantive issues covered in The Bible Unearthed: Isaac's conversation with a Philistine king half a millennium before that nation got off the boat, the lack of archaeological evidence for the sojourn in Egypt, the wandering in the desert, the conquest of Canaan, the presence of a powerful united monarchy in the time of David and Solomon, polytheism among the Israelites from the beginning.