He supplies evidences from mineralogist John Dayton's studies of pottery and metallurgy in the ancient Near East. In the past, many have assumed that the events in the early books of the Bible must have been minor if other civilizations did not report them According to the alignments here, they were indeed chronicled, and some interesting personages are linked together. Thoth could be one and the same, because of the speculated relationships and such motifs as their initiations of civilizations and culture to their peoples, their introductions of religious practices, etc. Hercules and Samson are highly linked. The plagues of Egypt in Exodus relate to a bad period of time chronicled in the Papyrus Ipuwer.
Various clues hint at more accurate datings of the various events.
Sweeney is not afraid to criticize Velikovsky, when he feels the latter made mistakes.