[whoops replied to wrong person, I meant the original poster]
As I recall David M. Rohl in his book "A Test of Time" addresses these and many more issues, with his new chronology. In his book he addresses the long standing 300 year discrepancy between the archaelogy and the Bible. You could go try read the book sometime, its quite interesting.
Anyway, if you want the basics of what its about,
David Rohl's "New Chronology" is a good place to start, along with
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[This message has been edited by blitz77, 03-16-2003]
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