ELLEN FRANKEL: They were now Hebrew speakers and had blended into Israeli society stripped of any ethnic past. Meanwhile, thousands of orphaned tales sat silently in manila file folders in a small, crowded room
בְנֵי־לֹ֣וט
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.