I agree with you, Joe.

For one thing, I think the Bible offers us the viewpoint of people who withstood terrible suffering and yet kept their faith, their identity and their ethics. To me this is far more important than the question of what tribes (if any) were where.

The same applies to the early music I play. I marvel that Philip Nicolai, a minister in the 16th Century, could live through a plague and then write "How brightly beams the morning star."

Joe, I bet you would really enjoy Greenberg's book.