and his ways with his creation. Even if our presuppositions allow us to assume only that the text reveals what the author thought about God, it is still an exercise in biblical theology. In the wider sense biblical theology is concerned with the structures of revelation and with the ways in which the unity of the biblical canon can be described. Because I assume an overall unity of the Scriptures as the word of God, I can define biblical theology in a way that emphasizes this unity while not overlooking