A number of recent threads about searching for the quotations in the New Testament of the Old Testament has prompted a new project for me. I am manually highlighting the quotations and setting up a framework to highlight allusions to the OT.
Here's my layout for the project thus far.

I started a new highlighting palette called "Intertextuality" This will allow me to toggle this view in the NA27. Quotations receive a color-coded underline plus a bubble tag with "short book abbreviation" in it. Pentateuch is brick red; Historical books Green; Poetry/Wisdom books are Purple; and Prophets are Dark Blue. After I highlight the quote I attach a note to the reference so I can have cross references whether or not a Bible is tagged with them.
Benefits?
- When I am done I will be able to search just quotes from Psalms etc. The NA27 has a quoted material search field but it does not differentiate the sources of the quotes.
- The line between a quotation and an allusion is a subjective one. This allows me to have a record of what I think the relationship is. If you notice I'm starting with all the instances in the OT quotes according to the HCSB. I've already found 3 instances that I don't think rise to the level of quotation, they've been dumped into my quotation/verbal parallelism note file.
- Having the allusion framework set up will allow me to really track the influence of the OT on a passage drawing input from much more detailed work in journal articles and commentaries that isn't present in standard cross-reference schemes.
- I anticipate Logos having a highlighting report - being able to view all the text of what you've highlighted with a specific style; there should be some really neat things I can do with all of this highlighted in the future. You can already do something like this by using a Passage List to pull verses from what's highlighted.
Some observations
- It would be great if Logos would do something like this. However, I'm glad for the opportunity to have the highlighting reflect the results of my studies.
- Notes are slow! This process really bogs down on my laptop with integrated graphics. My desktop is better. I estimate that it will take about 10-20 hours to complete the project.
So what do you think? I just made it through Acts. Have I missed something? Is there something that you do that would be good for me to incorporate into this project?