I really love Ralph Ellis' chronology, in which figures like David and Solomon were simply Middle Kingdom pharaohs (Hyksos?) and the Holy Mountain is the Great Pyramid, where Moses received the Law. Ellis reminds us that the Hyksos were paid rather handsomely to leave Egypt and that was the first exodus, the second, smaller exodus later being the expulsion of the Amarna community of Atonists. Ishmael Reed is another writer that seems to grasp that the story got turned upside down…reminds me to reread Mumbo Jumbo.
My own view is that "Phoenicia" was a vast maritime empire that collapsed because of some calamity, sending survivors inland. These were the sailors, the people that made things and tried to sell them, traders, shitworkers, animal trainers, whatever. They've always been everywhere making the world go round and trying to scratch out a living. Probably most of us share some DNA with these people…most. These would have been the people beloved by Enki, the hippie sailor gardener husbandman brother of the deep state Enlil. Enki is the mischievous champion of divine primordial humanity. I feel like I'm on Enki's side, and I'm quite sure that doesn't make me some kind of devil worshipper.
Having studied some of the alt-Mormon diffusionist research, the idea of Middle Easterners coming to N. America around 500 BC, settling first around Appalachicola, moving up into the Tennessee Valley, then into Missouri, then across Ohio and up into Upstate NY. A different group had come in through the St. Lawrence Seaway and encountered a remnant population of giants in the Great Lakes region. The archaeology of it fits with Hopewell and Adena cultural horizons, the mound builders and a realistic geography of the events described in their text. Their focus on the idea of the full priesthood of Melchizedek (Enki-an), of which Jesus was said to be a priest, as opposed to the priesthood of Aaron, puts them right in the middle of the story.
Whatever else may be true, America seems like a promised land of freedom from the control of the worshipful mind, where man can encounter god on his own terms and break the hierarchy and giving humanity direct access to his own divinity.
Then there's Gene Matlock and all the evidence of Shiva worship among Native Americans clear to the east coast. Hermetic Nashville. The ley lines. It all fits together and says we don't know shit for truth anymore.