The Merneptah Stele says Israel was wiped out. So it's a pretty tenuous explanation to say that this is the battle recorded in the book of Joshua. Also the book

The Merneptah Stele says Israel was wiped out. So it's a pretty tenuous explanation to say that this is the battle recorded in the book of Joshua. Also the book of Joshua says the battle was against the Amorites, that the sun delayed going down for a full day, and that Israel was victorious. I think it is fair to say the majority scholarly opinion (biblical minimalist or maximalist) is going to consider this theory the work of cranks. The maximalists don't get their way without a fairly extensive revision of Egyptian chronology, a la David Rohl [1]. The minimalists consider the record of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua to be completely ahistorical. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Rohl) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Rohl)