That biblical theology is a complicated matter is shown by the fact that J. K. Mead’s textbook was the first attempt in some 30 years to try and define and refine the category in meaningful ways. At the outset, one has first to decide what counts as “the Bible.” For persons of Jewish faith, a perfectly good “biblical theology” can be done simply by studying and analyzing what Christians call “the Old Testament,” though ironically when asked about the Christian enterprise called biblical theology, some Jewish scholars say they are simply not interested in the subject.