do not exist.3 If context is king when it comes to theological exegesis, we cannot escape the fact that the context of Scripture also includes its developing canonical shape as the depository of tradition history. This becomes equally true for the NT, if in fact the NT writings did not come into existence in isolation from one another and if the NT canon is the product of an early editorial design rather than of a long, slow process of collection and evaluation.4 However, biblical theology is just