To be able to truly under-stand a document, one must first put aside what one has learned about it and stop believing that it could be deciphered in the very first reading.
Question: What steps should be taken in order to know how to correctly interpret a document? Are we always incorrect after the first or second reading?
Purposefully focusing on a particular theme (drunkenness, theft, adultery) creates a specific viewpoint that requires explanation, because the space is necessarily reorganized by the research objective.
Comment: Choosing to look at one topic may be able to tell you something something even more specific, or even broader, that you may not be able to directly search for. The archives can be used as a tool to find information beyond the texts.
And he wrote as he spoke; which is to say that he did not really write, so much as he reproduced on paper the sounds that make up speech. Not the sounds of words-that would be too easy-but those that make up sentences or parts of speech. There is no punctuation, of course, but there are definitely spaces, unexpected blanks between two syllables of the same word, or disorganized reconfigurations that stray far from the beaten path of spelling.
Connection: This reminds me of listening to something in a foreign language. Similarly, we are not able to tell when each word or phrase starts and stops, and the tone is not easily discernible.