SPIRIN:Encyclopedia/Texts/intertextual relations

Spiritual texts are (as phenotexts) intertextually related to earlier texts (archetexts) and generate new texts.

The different kinds of relationship unfold a varied pattern of intertextual relations:

• critical edition
• anthology
• collection
• repertorium
• excerption
• compilation
• translation
• commentary
• paraphrase
• annotation
• quotation
• allusion