Joshua and the other judges were chiefs. They lead armies, built alters, pronounced judgements and whatnot. Often advised by prophets.
Mosaic Law, the scrolls of the torah, dod not exist at this point. Not even according to the bible. This came later, during the time of kings.
The stuff quickly scribbled on rocks by The Almighty so that Rabbi Moses could go deal with that whole mess down below... it's sparse. It's got a list of things god likes to eat. A recipe you are not allowed to make.
It doesn't even tell you what to do when a Midian Schiester sells you a faulty woman. Not one word on right to representation, if you can believe it.
American' legal system is based on a mostly illiterate culture's legal tradition, form the black sea. It's very good at dealing with disputes involving fish, pillage and private property.
Also... who ya'callin godless. Get your own god. You can go back to Thor if you don't like what you got here.
Originally, they just followed God, His basic design, and loved each other. Later, God made a covenants with Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and eventually everyone who repents and believes via Jesus Christ. Each time, someone wrote them down later on under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Mosaic Covenant was special. God delivered them from Egypt using mighty works that showed each Egyption god was fake. Even pagans, like Rahab, knew the Hebrew God had real power but worshiped fake ones that let them sin (subjectivism/hedonism). Then, Israelites saw God manifest in storms, vocally, fire in the sky, manna from heaven, and so on. That proved for them the Mosaic Covenant was from a real God.
The Mosaic Covenant (Torah) itself had a test in it in blessings and curses section. If they followed God, He caused specific benefits. If they turned to idols and unrepentant sin, God would curse them in specific ways. The former prophets record how that indeed happened over and over with latter prophets formally accusing Israel, citing Mosaic Law, like God's prosecutors.
The Law itself only required and banned a small number of things. It gave examples of a broad array of topics including marriage, violence, contracts, negligence, health inspectors, and even building codes. Past that, they didnt have to add to it. Just do the best they could in a given situation.
The Pharisees extended the laws in so many ways that the burden was too heavy to carry. They also didn't care about human beings at all, only their own power, shown by how they negatively responded to Jesus supernaturally healing people on the Sabbath. They'd rather punish someone for a prayer or picking up their mat because that broke their man-made rules about the Sabbath. They also kept trying to force Jesus, God in the flesh, to conform to them instead of the other way around.
Jesus said the Sabbath, like God's laws, were made for man's benefit. He said his yoke and burden is light, unlike man's. He also simplied the Ten Commandments to love God first and your neighbor as yourself. One simply has to interpret new situations based on these principles. God will bless that. If they were confused, Israel also had the ability to pray and receive answers from God in various ways.
American System
Now, the American legal system is far from that easy. I've seen cases that could take one day without specialists cost $50k-$100k over a year because the system is designed for lawyers' and judges' benefit more than ours. Yet, it originally was built on Biblical principles for Christians as argued in this ahort video:
Dropping the worldview behind this caused it to support all kinds of sin and nonsense. One example is a corporation being treated like a person under law but not having that level of accountability (eg prison or death). Another is hurting the poor. Another is treating people differently based on race.
Returning to Jesus' teachings, the New Covenant, will prevent most of the worst problems. It will support correcting the rest.
Joshua and the other judges were chiefs. They lead armies, built alters, pronounced judgements and whatnot. Often advised by prophets.
Mosaic Law, the scrolls of the torah, dod not exist at this point. Not even according to the bible. This came later, during the time of kings.
The stuff quickly scribbled on rocks by The Almighty so that Rabbi Moses could go deal with that whole mess down below... it's sparse. It's got a list of things god likes to eat. A recipe you are not allowed to make.
It doesn't even tell you what to do when a Midian Schiester sells you a faulty woman. Not one word on right to representation, if you can believe it.
American' legal system is based on a mostly illiterate culture's legal tradition, form the black sea. It's very good at dealing with disputes involving fish, pillage and private property.
Also... who ya'callin godless. Get your own god. You can go back to Thor if you don't like what you got here.