The XPointer framework is one of those W3C notions that is dead today. Same with the TEI XPointer schemes. The cause of dead is manifold and ranges from a lack of implementations to weaknesses of the specification: It is unclear, what a processor is to do with the pointers, that actually only point to a portion of a resource. As a consequence, XPointers have never grown to a paradigmatic field of application, in which they could have proven their value. However, there is such a paradigmatic field of application for the TEI XPointer schemes: the Web-Annotations-like element and its @target attribute. If this element is really meant to “represent[] an annotation following the Web Annotation Data Model”, like the TEI reference states, then we need a referencing mechanism, that is compatible with the Web Annotation’s selector mechanism, and that at a specification level. The TEI XPointer schemes not only do satisfy this requirement, but are the only specified component of the TEI, that satisfies it. The paper first introduces a full implementation. It then showcases an application in an inquiry on intertextuality using the element: The semantic deferrals in the textual tradition of the book of Ijob, originating from the translations of the Masoretic Text to Septuagint and Targum.