Wonders from Your Law: Nexus Passages and the Promise of an Exegetical Intertextual Old Testament Theology

Finding internal coherence within the Old Testament is a challenging task. Numerous scholars over the centuries have provided various, divergent frameworks to organize the content of the Hebrew Bible. Navigating both the Old Testament itself and the history of its interpretation can feel like a maze of complexity.

Biblical scholar Kevin Chen offers a way of understanding the Old Testament through the orienting lens of what he calls ＂nexus passages.＂ Such passages pull the material of the Old Testament together through their high connectivity to other Scripture passages. In his thorough textual analyses, Chen shows how these nexus passages serve as lexical, thematic, and theological hubs for understanding the Old Testament. Both exegetical and intertextual, Wonders From your Law gazes deeply into the text for a constructive, evangelical approach to Old Testament theology.

Kevin S. Chen (PhD, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of Old Testament and ThM program director at Christian Witness Theological Seminary, a Chinese-language seminary in San Jose, CA. He is a second-generation Chinese American and previously taught for nine years at Union University in Jackson, TN. His other books are The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch and Eschatological Sanctuary in Exodus 15:17 and Related Texts. He and his wife, Joyce, have two children.