bible history

I got into an argument with my religious catholic uncle about whether there were actually Jewish slaves in Egypt and whether Moses was a real person. My answer was no to both and he got really angry. I wanted to give him specific reasons, but have not really researched this at all. So...

I am reading "Jerusalem, the Biography" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, and a cracking and well researched book it is. In the early chapters he writes about David, who I thought was probably fictional, but references the Tel Dan stele which seems to be good evidence that an Israelite king called...