Wolf: Just because they can’t find it today does not mean it doesn’t exist. They are constantly finding the existence of people that they did not previously know existed.
Not really. True, there are uncontacted peoples (such as those on the Andaman Islands of India) who are left alone, but for the most part, there aren’t really any undiscovered people left.
But my argument wasn’t on the people, but on the river. In order to prevent the Ten Tribes from returning, the river has to be of a certain size (otherwise, you could just go around it). The odds of finding a river of that size (and with such unusual properties) being undiscovered today (with satellite imagery) is exceedingly unlikely.
Obviously the 10 shevotim exist somewhere too.
As a group? Why is that so obvious? I think it’s just as obvious to say that they eventually intermarried and were lost, just as were the ancient Edomites, Ammonites, Elamites and all the nations of old. Do you have some theological reason for stating that all twelve tribes must exist? If so, you could just as easily posit that representatives of the other tribes lived in Judah and their descendants still exist today (mixed in with the rest of the modern-day Jewish people).
The Wolf