Quite what that meant about documents, how they were to be studied and interpreted, was slowly becoming clear. What was emerging was a new episteme: the systematic analysis of documents and their traits, the systems they set forth one by one, on a long path toward the analysis of the writings aimed at a synthesis, properly set forth, of the same writings. That accounted for the title toward which I then aimed and ultimately achieved: Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah. That meant: what Judaic system