  This contribution to a special issue on "Computer-aided processing of
intertextuality" in ancient texts will illustrate how using digital tools to
interact with the Hebrew Bible offers new promising perspectives for
visualizing the texts and for performing tasks in education and research. This
contribution explores how the corpus of the Hebrew Bible created and maintained
by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer can support new methods for
modern knowledge workers within the field of digital humanities and theology be
applied to ancient texts, and how this can be envisioned as a new field of
digital intertextuality. The article first describes how the corpus was used to
develop the Bible Online Learner as a persuasive technology to enhance language
learning with, in, and around a database that acts as the engine driving
interactive tasks for learners. Intertextuality in this case is a matter of
active exploration and ongoing practice. Furthermore, interactive
corpus-technology has an important bearing on the task of textual criticism as
a specialized area of research that depends increasingly on the availability of
digital resources. Commercial solutions developed by software companies like
Logos and Accordance offer a market-based intertextuality defined by the
production of advanced digital resources for scholars and students as useful
alternatives to often inaccessible and expensive printed versions. It is
reasonable to expect that in the future interactive corpus technology will
allow scholars to do innovative academic tasks in textual criticism and
interpretation. We have already seen the emergence of promising tools for text
categorization, analysis of translation shifts, and interpretation. Broadly
speaking, interactive tools and tasks within the three areas of language
learning, textual criticism, and Biblical studies illustrate a new kind of
intertextuality emerging within digital humanities.
