Woodeye

Paul5402:
I apologize for the length of time which has gone by since you responded to my post. I didn't realize that you had responded.
I don't mean to make the Torah appear cut and dried, but the way I see it, the Torah explains the establishment of a civil government on the rule of law. While some of the laws appear to be culturally defined, the Decalog is a reasonable model for any country's basic national law, as long as one reads the word "God", in theocratic context as "government".
The fact that the Torah is mainly national history, simply confirms that the Torah is a nationalist document.
The promises of God, that define the Children of Israel as a nation, are the promise that the land would be theirs forever, and the promise that the kingdom would last forever, and the fact that both of those promises are in a suspended state, the promise that is key right now, and for the last 2500 years, is the promise of the messiah, who will save the Children of Israel by bringing them back into a legal position before their lost theocratic government, by restoring the land and the kingdom to them.