The Library

Five ways of seeing the one web
Scripture interprets Scripture — and the Library is where those connections are traced and gathered. On the reading pages you meet one passage and read it several ways; here you take one passage and follow its connections several ways. These are not ten databases but five ways of seeing the single web by which the Bible opens itself — and every way is a lens onto one glory: Christ in all the Scriptures.

Follow a line across the canon

Stand at one end of the story and watch a single thread run all the way to Christ.
Trajectory Tables188One Old Testament strand traced, stage by stage, to its fulfillment in Christ.
Longitudinal Themes19A single motif, like covenant or temple, growing from Genesis to Revelation.
Anchor-Text Networks80The whole later career of one Old Testament text across the canon.
The Cycles Timeline24The one story told in waves — an explorable map of every cycle from Creation to Consummation.

Watch two texts meet

Stand where one passage reaches back and takes hold of another, and listen to them speak.
Intertextuality Pairs3,180The engine room: each place where one passage quotes, alludes to, or echoes another.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge500,000+The classic web of cross-references, a trusted companion to the Pairs.

See a passage's God-intended shape

Stand back far enough to see the design, and the center the author built everything around.
Chiasms1,765Mirror-patterned structures whose turning-point shows you what the passage is really about.

Go to the bottom of one well

Stop following lines, and stay with a single text until it gives up its depths.
Foundation Texts2,941Deep, word-level exegesis of the key texts the trajectories pass through.

Read the apostles' own method

Learn the moves Jesus and the apostles actually made, so you can read the way they read.
Greidanus's Seven WaysThe seven sound roads from any Old Testament text to Christ.
Beale's Twelve WaysWhat a New Testament writer is actually doing with the Old Testament he cites.
Prosopological ReadingsHearing who is speaking when a Psalm's voice turns out to be Christ's.
Every connection in this Library is a road, and every road runs to one place: with unveiled faces we all reflect the glory of the Lord, and are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory (2 Corinthians 3:18). The catalogs are only the means. The beholding — and the becoming — is the end.
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