The Explosion of Thera 1642–1540 BCE If we take the eruption of Thera... Which I believe would have had a high impact on all the surrounding countries... Has anyone associated this event, even theoretically, to a Biblical event.

Also another event that need to be dealth with is the Bronze age collapse. 1177 BC.

Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press, 2014)

Donald B. Redford, The Coming of the Sea Peoples”, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times (Princeton University Press, 1992), 241-256.   

Every one was impacted and I suspect Israel too.
Where do we put this in the Biblical stories ?
Question: Where do we put the explosion of Thera in the biblical stories (of the Exodus)?

Opinions vary as to the date of the eruption of Thera.  One source places the event anywhere from 1645 B.C. to 1500 B.C.  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Thera

Another source says this:


  In 1646 B.C. a massive volcanic eruption, perhaps one of the largest ever witnessed by mankind, took place at Thera (present day Santorini), an island in the Aegean not far from Crete.  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption


With regard to when the Exodus happened, my NIV Study Bible gives 1446 B.C. as does this other source:


  The date of the exodus was 1446 B.C., in the 18th dynasty of Egypt, 480 years before Solomon built the Temple: 1 Kings 6:1. Source: https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route-goshen-red-sea.htm


In other words, the crossing of the Red Sea happened long after the eruption of Thera.  

Although one Egyptologist (Dr. Hans Goedicke of John Hopkins University) came up with the idea that the Exodus coincided with the volcanic eruption at Thera (in 1477 B.C.) the date of the Exodus (1446 B.C.) does not coincide with the supposed date of the eruption at Thera.  Until somebody can come up with a verifiable date for the eruption at Thera, it is a waste of time to speculate further.

As the author of this article says at the end of this paper, “The Thera theories are not only bad science, they are bad theology.”  https://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/science-and-religion/2014/02/26/thera-egypt-exodus/