For Christian theology, biblical theology that stops with what the text means is no more useful than systematic theology that ignores what the text meant.From the Finger of God, 50
Biblical theology gives special attention to the teachings of individual authors and sections of Scripture, and to the place of each teaching in the historical development of Scripture.Systematic Theology, 22
a biblical theological approach to a particular text seeks to give its interpretation first with regard to its own literary context and primarily in relation to its own redemptive-historical epoch, and then to the epochs preceding, and following it.