When/where/how are you publishing this information? It sounds intriguing.
The key to what is driving this is to see the Torah through the eyes of a nomadic herding culture already thousands of years old at the time the Torah was written. Remember: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David were all herdsman. They see the world very differently than we do. There are many of what I consider to be interpretive errors on the part of Ezra et al when Israel returned from Bavel. It was my familiarity with habitat restoration in xeric and Mediterranean mesic landscapes that helped me discern the themes behind what was actually being said and not any special talent as regards Hebrew. Ezra was a priest, not a herdsman and warrior, and he saw what he was reading in a mystical fashion. Not that he altered the text, but that what went into the Talmud that so heavily influenced our latter day understanding is where that influence was most felt. In a way, these distinctions do much to confirm that the original stories (which some believe were transcribed from tablets) are as old as it says they are. I can't go into that right now.
This is a real-world understanding, with little to no mysticism involved. Hence, the metaphors work backward from those to which we are used, with the story mapping onto everyday technical military, social, economic, and environmental reality. To get a taste for that, take a look at the Shemitta web site. BTW, although it says there is a CD I'm not selling them any more because so many of the recent findings have me focused upon an update, particularly as regards how we might apply these laws today. As it is, I may just put most of this up on the web for free, but for those "picture books" for which I would have to request specific permission. We have simply got to get people DOING what the book teaches or we stand to lose everything.