Immanuel Velikovsky's, Ages in Chaos,
first published in 1952, is an example of an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics.
Immanuel Velikovsky's earlier work,
Worlds in Collision, first published in 1950, suggested that asteroids or comets orbiting the sun periodically pass close to the Earth.
By adjusting the time line of biblical and
Egyptian history by 600 years, Velikovsky found that the two accounts, the Israeli and the Egyptian, became congruent.
Velikovsky believed the catastrophes that occurred within the memory of humankind
were recorded in the myths, legends, and written history of all ancient cultures and civilizations.