GEN842 Premodern rights do not hang in the air.  They are elements of a larger scheme of natural justice, which situates humanity in creation vis-à-vis God’s law, as articulated in Scripture and as implicit in the human frame and condition.  … Conceptually, we find a case in point with the Torah’s legislation for all Israelites’ undisturbed possession of their ancestral land: The communal right to the land God promised the nation, through their earliest ancestor, is institutionalized as a right of possession by all Israelites and their heirs, severally [this verse], 15:18, 24:7; Exodus 6:4, 34:24, Leviticus 25:18, 25:23-38.  In the vignettes of the Prophets, that right is transmuted into an arcadian vision paradigmatic of the reign of universal justice, when “nations shall not take up sword against nation … but every man shall sit, unmolested under his own vine or fig tree” Micah 4:3-4.  JHRHV 55