Reddit mentions of The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion)

>To be fair to myself, I feel that I have to put God aside for a moment, and look at the facts, plainly, and as objectively as I can. And follow the evidence where it leads.

This is good. Start your investigation as an agnostic. Make truth your goal. So often, I hear that Christians doing investigations/research are committed to God no matter what. Well, then their investigation is biased from the start. Now, we're all biased no matter how hard we try not to be, but committing oneself to God before investigating one's religious beliefs seems like, for you, a bias that you're attempting to mitigate, and for that I applaud you.

When I was in your shoes, some Deist writers (like Thomas Payne in The Age of Reason) really got me thinking at first, and helped me to see that while there might be a God, there are some serious challenges to whether that God is the God of the Bible. For a while I started calling myself a Deist. I still flirt with the idea.

One interesting idea I initially learned from Payne is that Genesis mentions a place called "Dan" but the Bible doesn't tell the story of how the city of Dan was named until much later (like Joshua/Judges). Here's a blog post by a prof at a Baptist seminary explaining the issue in more detail.

For archaeology, especially that of the Exodus story, I'd look into writings by William Dever. He's more moderate than Finkelstein. The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible includes some writing by Dever, and also covers some other issues you're interested in - e.g. textual criticism, especially that of the book of Daniel, which is very interesting to me.

As for treatments of the Resurrection from the "other side" I'd recommend Doubting Jesus Resurrection by Komarnitsky.

Lastly, I found it helpful to find areas where consensus arguably exists among scholars of a given area of study. For example, while there is disagreement about the applicability of the Documentary Hypothesis, it's my understanding there's still consensus that multiple authors composed the Pentateuch. Other areas of consensus include late authorship of the latter part of Daniel where prophecies are made (which is relevant to the Christian because Mark, the earliest gospel, interpreted these prophecies as being about Jesus and the 1st century).

Anyway, I hope I've given you some interesting things to look at. Good luck!