The Spine · Index Fontium

Every Old Testament source book around the upper arc, every New Testament book around the lower — each ribbon a current of quotation, allusion, and echo running between them, weighted by confidence. The diagram draws the spine no one wrote down: Isaiah, the Psalms, and Daniel swelling into bands that feed the whole New Testament. Hover a ribbon to follow it.

Arc width is a book’s total weighted involvement; ribbons show links of weight 4 or more. Fainter links live in the index and the leaderboard below.

The load-bearing texts

The twenty-five sources the New Testament leans on hardest, by significance — confidence weighted by how many books reach for each. The colored bar reads the mix of quotation, allusion, echo, and figural reuse. Follow any to its reception dossier.

1Leviticus 19:1833 places · 14 books1106
2Psalm 110:131 places · 12 books936
3Daniel 12:236 places · 13 books845
4Isaiah 53:1229 places · 13 books754
5Daniel 7:1339 places · 8 books680
6Psalm 2:723 places · 11 books583
7Isaiah 49:625 places · 11 books572
8Daniel 7:13-1431 places · 8 books520
9Genesis 2:722 places · 12 books456
10Jeremiah 17:1018 places · 12 books432
11Exodus 34:614 places · 11 books385
12Joel 2:28-2918 places · 10 books380
13Genesis 1:117 places · 12 books360
14Isaiah 26:1917 places · 10 books340
15Genesis 3:1520 places · 10 books310
16Isaiah 28:1616 places · 9 books306
17Jeremiah 9:23-2416 places · 9 books306
18Isaiah 53:617 places · 9 books297
19Deuteronomy 6:516 places · 9 books297
20Genesis 1:26-2712 places · 10 books290
21Daniel 7:1426 places · 6 books288
22Isaiah 11:218 places · 9 books279
23Deuteronomy 10:1711 places · 9 books279
24Daniel 12:120 places · 7 books273
25Deuteronomy 19:1514 places · 9 books270