[orionblamblam]

> ...an unsophisticated and relatively primitive middle-eastern tribe?

The ability to write is some five or so thousand years old, and is not the marker of an advanced culture. Especially when one considers that the Israelites were surrounds by much higher civilizations, such as the Egyptians, Babylonians and Phoenecians.

[Elsie]

an unsophisticated and relatively primitive middle-eastern tribe

Neither of these has been shown..........