Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
"Under the palm-tree ... in Ephraim"  (Judges 4:5).  It is astounding that Soggin would affirm `that, "Ephraim was Deborah's tribe,"[10]  despite the clear indication in  Judges 5:15 that, "Deborah's own tribe seems to have been Issachar."[11]  Soggin apparently assumed that because Deborah's prophetic office was exercised in "the hill-country of Ephraim," that she necessarily belonged to that tribe.  The same kind of deduction would have made Jonah a citizen of Nineveh!