Forget the 23rd Psalm, what about Deut 25?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
[i]1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple

The biblical source, 1 Kings 6:1, puts the date of the beginni ...[text shortened]... at gives enough information to calculate the date of the Exodus as being approximately 1446 BCE.

That would make the relevant Pharaoh Thutmose III whose reign was 1479–1425 BC, he ruled for 50 years and invaded Canaan. In my mind he is a Moses candidate, but Ramesses II (reigned 1279–1213 BC) fits better - a member of the Egyptian Royal household part of whose name means "Born", who would have regarded Canaan as being the promised land and invaded, but didn't personally enter Canaan (Thutmose on the other hand did) and lived to a ripe old age. The dates are a little out relative to the biblical chronology, but apart from that he fits the description. The only part he doesn't fit is that he's an Egyptian and not an Israelite, but I don't think that's a real objection - it's the kind of thing that happens to orally transmitted mythologies after 700 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thutmose_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II