ABSTRACT
Within the few hundred years aer the closing of the Biblical canon and the owering of rabbinic Judaism, the process of interpretation within Judaic systems transformed. As the locus of religious power shied from diviners and priests to teachers, the divinatory search matured into outright textual research, midrash. As the corpus of hermeneutic experimentation expanded, the digitization that had been applied to single letters and names transformed into a practice of referencing whole sentences and stories.
