I don’t know if we have any Phoenician writing surviving. The Phoenicians had literature, but it was all burnt or lost: I recall reading that the only book surviving from Carthage is a manual on how to treat your slaves, in Latin translation (the Romans had priorities).

We do have references to the two kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah in the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions, which detailed political events in stone. Sennacherib’s Prism from the early 7th c. BC is likely the most famous, detailing the Assyrian pillage and devastation of Samaria-Israel and the attack on Judah, which king Hezekiah resisted from within the walls of Jerusalem (“like a caged bird”), buying off the Assyrian host with tribute. The material devastation of the attacks and the ruin of settlements is corroborated by the archaeological record.

The sceptical historical account (with which I entirely agree on this issue) deviates from the Biblical narrative on several points:

• the Israelites did not originate in Mesopotamia, and were never captive in Egypt, and there was no migration or conquest of Canaan.

The Jews, Samaritans, and Phoenicians were in fact all closely related peoples living in Syria-Canaan who spoke closely related languages, used similar scripts, and worshipped the same gods (the various forms of Baal/Adonai were more competing varieties than opposites). The later mythic history of a nation held captive in Egypt and coming in as conquerors against supposed native Canaanites was glorifying legend invented in imitation of Assyrian royal propaganda, which privileged successful conquest.

• there doesn’t seem to have been a united kingdom ruled by David and Solomon, including both Israel and Judah.

While the Jews and Samaritans-Israelites were very closely connected, and the Torah used by the Samaritans is near-identical to that of the Jews (replacing Jerusalem with Mt. Gerizim), the idea that both kingdoms were preceded by a united kingdom that was a major regional power is unsubstantiated. More likely they developed in parallel, and the Hellenistic Hasmonean kingdom was the first to cover both regions.

The account of the Babylonian Captivity, however, (i.e. the spoliation and abduction of large parts of the Jewish population and their return) is much more recent, and in outline historical.