The twelve tribes are as mythical as all the rest of it.
Archaeology now shows that the northern and southern kingdoms arose independently and when the Assyrians overran the northern kingdom they deported about 10% of the population not 100% leaving the rest there to keep on being Canaanites...which is what both polities were.
You can't give them an inch, Ras...
Archaeology now shows that the northern and southern kingdoms arose independently and when the Assyrians overran the northern kingdom they deported about 10% of the population not 100% leaving the rest there to keep on being Canaanites...which is what both polities were.
You can't give them an inch, Ras...