Intertextuality: On the use of the Bible in mystical texts
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies May 21, 2012 Kees Waaijman
This article discussed the use of the Bible in mystical texts by focusing on intertextuality as a literary approach which analyses the intersection of texts. It investigated how mystical texts, as phenotexts, relate to the Bible as archetext: firstly, the intertextual relations affect the surface of the text in a mono-causal way and secondly, they govern the production of meaning reciprocally....