Survival among the Israelites
Regarding your claim in the trilogy and in the last lesson in the series about the belief that the survival of the Jewish people is not necessarily due to divine intervention, because it could also be due to the power of our culture through the Torah, I saw in Reason To Believe by Rabbi David Gottlieb, which reviews all the types of explanations for survival that historians have offered, and proves that they all really don’t hold water, and that it is necessarily a supernatural phenomenon.