Dr. Kevin Chen

Kevin Chen is a second-generation Chinese-American (ABC) who returned to his hometown of San Jose to teach at CWTS in July 2019. For the previous nine years, he taught biblical studies at Union University, which is a Christian liberal arts university in Jackson, TN. His research, teaching, and writing have focused on the Old Testament and Hebrew, although his interests also include biblical studies, hermeneutics, and biblical theology. Before beginning his Ph.D. studies and while doing M.Div. studies part-time at Western Seminary, he worked as an electrical engineer for three years in the Silicon Valley.

Kevin has spent many years in Chinese and Asian-American churches, which he has served in the areas of leadership, preaching, and teaching. Through his nine years in Tennessee and one year of Ph.D. study at Southeastern Seminary in North Carolina, he has also lived in the American South for ten years.

Kevin is married to Joyce, and they have one daughter (Kristina) and one son (Joel). He enjoys spending time with his family, exercise, travel, reading, learning languages, and following Bay Area sports teams.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, 2009
  • M.Div., Western Seminary, 2006
  • M.S., Stanford University, 2003
  • B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2001
• Selected Publications (in Chinese):
  • A. Books:
    • Wonders from Your Law: Nexus Passages and the Promise of an Exegetical Old Testament Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, forthcoming).
    • The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2019)
    • Eschatological Sanctuary in Exodus 15:17 and Related Texts, Studies in Biblical Literature, ed. Hemchand Gossai (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), 174pp.
  • B. Articles:
    • “Psalm 110: A Nexus for Old Testament Theology,” Criswell Theological Review 17.2 (Spring 2020): 49-65.
    • “Poetry, Imagination, and the Messianic Witness of the Old Testament,” for Cateclesia Institute, September 23, 2020.
    • “Narrative, Imagination, and the Messianic Witness of the Old Testament,” for Cateclesia Institute, December 22, 2020.
    • “(Mis)understanding Sailhamer,” Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament 7.1 (2021): 27-59.
    • “The Mosaic Covenant,” “The Nations in the Writings,” “Resurrection in the Old Testament,” in A Handbook on the Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith, eds. Craig Evans and David Mishkin (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2019), 17-22, 45-49, 250-255.
    • “Gleanings from the John H. Sailhamer Papers at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary,” Southeastern Theological Review 9.1 (2018): 93-112.
    • “Wisdom is Worth a Thousand Laws: Legal Insufficiency and Exception as Intentional Compositional Strategy in the Pentateuch.” In Text and Canon: Essays in Honor of John H. Sailhamer, eds. Paul J. Kissling and Robert L. Cole, 37-60. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017)
  • C. Other:
    • Worldview Study Bible, Old Testament notes (Genesis–Malachi), ed. David S. Dockery (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2018). Length: approximately 195,000 words.