A translation of the 3-volume work, Notes de lexicographie néo-testamentaire, by the premier biblical exegete Ceslas Spicq, the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament will surely take its place alongside other standard language tools. One plus to this work is that it is self-consciously theological. Spicq's quest is not for morphology, orthography, or even grammar or syntax; rather, he wants to uncover the religious meaning of the language used in the New Testament. To accomplish his task, Spicq mines the vast resources of epigraphical texts, papyri, classical writings, the Greek Old Testament, Hellenistic authors, and innumerable sources to inform his study of New Testament Koine. Not merely following in the footsteps of other such works, more than half of the words in TLNT do not receive significant treatment in TDNT, and his impressive familiarity with a variety of resources—from funerary inscriptions to papyri fragments—deems his work extraordinary.

Ceslas Spicq, O.P., was an internationally recognized biblical scholar known especially for his commentaries: Saint Paul: Les Epîtres Pastorales, Les Epîtres de Saint Pierre, and L'Epître aux Hébreux, and for his widely acclaimed Agape in the New Testament.