I'm doing research on Egypt at and around the time of the exodus. The virtual evangelical consensus ("academically") dates the exodus under the 19th dynasty. I've never taken with this view as it requires the biblical chronology to be adjusted. It seems to me to be an attempt to synchronise data.
Allowing the Bible to set its own chronology gives a prima facie date around 1446. Allowing Egyptology to undertake its own study without adjusting it to a biblical chronology, the 1446 date falls within the 18th dynasty in the reign of Amenhotep II. If we overlay the Egyptian timeline on the biblical account we come up with a tentative hypothesis which correlates very well with the biblical narrative.
The problem is that there appear to be very few resources which explore this correlation. Eugene Merrill's Historical Survey accords with the hypothesis but gives little to no reference to historical sources. Bruce Gore's Historical Context is more systematic and provides a good correlation. Are there other resources which explore the likelihood of an 18th dynasty exodus?
Allowing the Bible to set its own chronology gives a prima facie date around 1446. Allowing Egyptology to undertake its own study without adjusting it to a biblical chronology, the 1446 date falls within the 18th dynasty in the reign of Amenhotep II. If we overlay the Egyptian timeline on the biblical account we come up with a tentative hypothesis which correlates very well with the biblical narrative.
The problem is that there appear to be very few resources which explore this correlation. Eugene Merrill's Historical Survey accords with the hypothesis but gives little to no reference to historical sources. Bruce Gore's Historical Context is more systematic and provides a good correlation. Are there other resources which explore the likelihood of an 18th dynasty exodus?