Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
" . . . the archaeological evidence, in the form of pottery, architecture, and other aspects of material culture, indicates that the Israelites as an identifiable group were present in Canaan certainly by the end of the thirteenth century BC, and that it is their culture, along with that of the Philistines and the Phoenicians, that rises up out of the ashes of the destruction of the Canaanite civilization sometime during the twelfth century BC. . . . for the Israelites are among the groups of peoples who will make up a new world order, emerging out of the chaos that was the end of the Late Bronze Age." [1177 BC, Kindle, Location 1951] "Many scholars therefore tend to date the story of the Exodus to the mid-13th century, between 1260 and 1220 B.C.E." [Isbouts: Biblical World, p. 137] Moses and Zoroaster may have effected a transformation in the Mideast after the Bronze Age collapse. The Bronze Age collapse is described in "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Eric H. Cline.