Biblical Theology

One of the significant discoveries of my theological education has been my complete lack of clarity on the subject of biblical theology. As a staff team we are reading Goldsworthy's 'Gospel and Kingdom' which has brought the issue back to the forefront of my mind. Having only read the first few chapters my thoughts so far are as follows

• The idea that we need to understand a passage, find what it would have meant to its initial audience, and then 'bridge the Gap' to our present context, seems at this point quite reasonable.
  
• His critique of allegorical interpretation is both amusing and quite apt.
  
• He makes a few statements, however, which the reader is to take as assumed without having been convinced by the author that such is the case. For instance that the Old testament is all about Jesus. This is a statement that I would like to investigate and hopefully become convinced of, however as yet it should have been dealt with in the text. I know the passages to which one might go to show this however at least the ones that come to mind do not say that all of the old testament is about Jesus.
  
• I have been very inspired to read the old testament more
  

I was thinking today that ideally our knowledge and understanding of the old testament would be that of paul or the apostles + whatever revelation is given in Luke 24. To this end it may be worth reading the Old testament according to the hebrew order... but at the same time maybe the LXX order would have been the order used at the time of the NT.

I hope to study this topic in extensive detail.