and published within a short time. The positive significance of revelation coming as an unfolding history and the origin of Scripture as part of that history will be noted presently. A second factor defining biblical theology, closely related to the first, is that revelation, understood as verbal, is not an end in itself. Revelation is never by itself in the sense of giving us information that consists in timeless truths about God, man, and the world.7 As a fair and important generalization, verbal