[Carry_Okie]

When Israel took the land, it was a tiny nation with a motherlode of salt sitting astride every major land trade route amid the Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Egyptian empires. If they weren't gnarly they weren't going to keep it.

Moshe wrote down the Law he was given that would bind the nation together with the tribal pastoral values he had learned as a nation of extended families, each caring for each other and prepared to defend as a way of life. The Torah was such a revolutionary libertarian system that were it practiced in full it would have been seen by the poor around the world and induced revolt against their earthly kings. Israel was indeed to be a light of liberty to the world.

[SaraJohnson]

The Torah was such a revolutionary libertarian system

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Libertarianism demands an atheistic, amoral social construct coupled with economic freedom detached from ethics as the standard or construct of a society.

Jews and Christians are to live by the Bible’s ethical standards, something libertarians find oppressive. The ideology of libertarianism has nothing to do with the Torah.