"...biblical theology is the study of God’s self-revelation to human beings for the purposes of redemption"

“...the Bible is a unity because it is the word of God, who is a unified and coherent being, and that a unified biblical theology should thus span the entire range of the Scriptures because they are all part of the written word of God...

“...to do biblical theology is not merely to survey the contents of the Bible. In pursuit of an understanding of God and his ways, a biblical theology that spans the canon seeks not only to unpack the content, but also to establish the conceptual unity of the Scriptures as a whole as they unfold in human events. Thus this type of biblical theology endeavors to reflect synthetically on the history and significance of the relationship between God and his people and God and his world, past, present and future, as delineated in the Scriptures. To achieve this goal, whole-Bible biblical theology does not settle for describing the discrete theological emphases of individual writers or sources. Nor does it settle for focusing on reconstructing the religious experiences or historical events behind the text that gave rise to the text. Instead, biblical theology seeks its content and coherence in the final propositions and basic ordering of the Old and New Testaments read in their entirety, in their final form, and in concert with one another. As attempted in this volume, biblical theology is the study of God’s self-revelation to human beings for the purposes of redemption through the interpretation of the events and experiences written down in the Scriptures. This sort of biblical theology affirms that God’s self-revelation can never be separated from the historical context in which it was given, and that this context is in concert with the literary record in which it is found.” – Scott Hafemann/Paul House, “Central Themes in Biblical Theology”, pp. 16-17