Which theologians (defined below) disagree with the following conclusion:

"Jewish survival can't be [reasonably] explained in a natural way (and instead needs to be explained as a miracle)".

I'm only looking for theologians that agree to certain historical facts (that the Jews survived despite being scattered in exile and despite being persecuted) and are biased towards AGREEING to that conclusion (meaning; their belief system would be BOLSTERED by this piece of "evidence" for Judaism), yet they explicitly write that they aren't willing to cite Jewish survival as evidence for a miracle.

Definition of theologian for the purpose of this question:

Published (or quoted by) a book/academic paper etc that INCLUDES (but doesn't have to be limited to) alleged evidence for Judaism.

Which Jewish theologians (defined below) disagree with the following conclusion:

"Jewish survival can't be [reasonably] explained in a natural way (and instead needs to be explained as a miracle)".

I'm only looking for theologians that agree to certain historical facts (that the Jews survived despite being scattered in exile and despite being persecuted) and are biased towards AGREEING to that conclusion (meaning; their belief system would be BOLSTERED by this piece of "evidence" for Judaism), yet they explicitly write that they aren't willing to cite Jewish survival as evidence for a miracle.

Definition of theologian for the purpose of this question:

Published (or quoted by) a book/academic paper etc that INCLUDES (but doesn't have to be limited to) alleged evidence for Judaism.