In a 2013 article, Jason Hood and Matthew Emerson identify ancient summaries of biblical history as a compositional category; they called this literary phenomenon “Summary of Israel’s Story” (SIS). The concept of SIS formed the basis for the 2020 book Biblical Theology According to the Apostles by Chris Bruno, Jared Compton, and Kevin McFadden which was then remarked upon by Brian Rosner in 2023 who said, “Apostolic Biblical Theology represents a remarkable precedent in many respects for the discipline of redemption-historical biblical theology.” The above authors appear to be recognizing a form of biblical theology which existed long before the distinction made by J. P. Gabler’s famous 1776 address, yet study on these ancient biblical theological summaries is sparse. This paper will analyze Hood and Emerson’s criteria for identifying ancient story summaries and consider the similarities between their literary concept of SIS and the modern-day discipline of biblical theology. If biblical theology can be conclusively said to exist pre-Gabler, modern scholarship has several thousand years of understudied biblical theological methodology which ought to be analyzed and applied to the modern-day discipline of biblical theology. The paper will introduce the concept of SIS and analyze Hood and Emerson’s criteria for identifying ancient story summaries; the concept of SIS will then be considered within the modern scholarly dialogue of biblical theology to discover whether it fits as a subcategory or even synonym of biblical theology.