Spicq’s intention is self-consciously theological. His quest is not for morphology, orthography, or even grammar or syntax. Rather, he aims to uncover the religious and moral meaning of the language used in the New Testament. To accomplish this 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. His impressive familiarity with a variety of resources—from funerary inscriptions to papyri fragments—deems his work extraordinary.
With the Logos edition of the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament, each lexical entry is cross-referenced to the other lexical resources in your Libronix Digital Library. What’s more, the numerous Scripture references found in each lexical entry are tagged to your Greek New Testament and English translations, along with the rest of the language tools in your library. This means that you can perform powerful searches and accomplish complex lexical research at the click of a button!
Now that the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament is available in your Libronix Digital Library, serious theological and lexical study of the New Testament can now be accomplished quickly and accurately. Knowing Greek will be an advantage, but English transliterations make this lexicon enormously useful for English-only study as well. Not only biblical studies scholars, but also—and especially—pastors, teachers, and others interested in serious theological studies of the Bible will profit from Spicq’s work.
Praise for the Print Edition
Spicq’s work is one of the best available entrees to this material for readers interested in exploring the theological meanings of the words used in the New Testament.
—James D. Ernest
Classical authors, inscriptions, and papyri are probed for the light they can shed… An important resource [now] available to English-speaking people.
—Frederick Danker
The word studies offered to us here, a gold mine of information in convenient form, would appear to be the fruit of a lifetime of study on the part of this distinguished scholar.
—Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
…This work merits a place on the New Testament scholar’s shelf. Beyond that, it affords precious amplification of the meager individual material at times given in the comprehensive lexicons and a correction of some of it.
—Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Key Features Included
- Each article entry includes the Greek lexical form, a fully transliterated English form, and a brief definition.
- Terms in the text itself are transliterated for the non-specialist, while scholars can quickly reference the original language in the article entry.
- Scholars especially will appreciate the extensive footnotes, which review a term’s use in the papyri, in the Septuagint, and in classical and Hellenistic writings and then assess the value of this material for understanding the New Testament.
- Spicq supplies an extensive bibliography.
- Every lexical entry and Scripture reference is linked to other titles in your Libronix Digital Library, such as your Greek New Testament, other lexicons, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and English Bible translations, allowing you the ability to jump quickly from the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament to the rest of your titles.
Electronic Titles Included
Volume One
- Includes lexical entries from αγα to ελπ
- 492 pages
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Volume Two
- Includes lexical entries from εμπ to οψω
- 603 pages
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Volume Three
- Includes lexical entries from παι to ψευ
- 694 pages
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Additional Information
- Title: Theological Lexicon of the New Testament
- 3 volumes
- 1789 pages
- Author: Ceslas Spicq
- Translator: James D. Ernest
- Translated from Notes de lexicographie neo-testamentaire, 1978
- Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1994
About the Authors
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 Hébreaux, and for his widely acclaimed Agape in the New Testament.
James D. Ernest is a student in the Boston College–Andover-Newton joint doctoral program. Taking his degree in the history of Christian life and thought, Mr. Ernest is specializing in patristic exegesis. His dissertation will focus on the writings of Athanasius.
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