You might want to consider also Lamentations 4:7 as well before dismissing the notion of an endogamous subpopulation with ancestral pale/ruddy skin.
Or 4Q534 from the Dead Sea scrolls claiming Noah had red hair.
Also, the leprosy descriptions seem like they may have been skin cancer:
https://www.thetorah.com/article/tzaraat-as-cancer
You might want to consider also Lamentations 4:7 as well before dismissing the notion of an endogamous subpopulation with ancestral pale/ruddy skin.
Or 4Q534 from the Dead Sea scrolls claiming Noah had red hair.
Also, the leprosy descriptions seem like they may have been skin cancer:
https://www.thetorah.com/article/tzaraat-as-cancer