If you study the archaeology of Israel

the conclusion is becoming even more clear: events in the Torah are very unlikely to have happened as written. Ze’ev Herzog,an archaeologist from Tel Aviv University wrote in Ha’aretz in 1999: “the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land [of Canaan] in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is the fact that the united kingdom of David and Solomon, described in the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom.” (1) Israel Finkelstein, another prominent archaeologist at Tel Aviv University agrees. In his book The Bible Unearthed, and in the France 5 documentary of the same name, he posits, among other things, that 1) camels are anachronistic in Genesis according to the timeline used traditionally in relationship to the Torah. 2) Had the Jews really left Egypt en masse at the time the Torah claims, they would've run back into Egyptian rule once they reached Canaan as Egypt was the dominant power in the region at the time. Below are the four parts of the documentary as available on youtube: (1) http://www.salon.com/2001/02/07/solomon/