KEEP UP YOUR

Biblical Latin

IN TWO MINUTES A DAY

365 SELECTIONS FOR EASY REVIEW

Compiled and edited by

Karen DeCrescenzo Lavery and Jonathan G. Kline

Today’s Reading

Keep Up Your Biblical Latin in Two Minutes a Day

© 2023 by Hendrickson Publishers

Published by Hendrickson Academic

an imprint of Hendrickson Publishing Group

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ISBN 978-1-4964-7777-4

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Book cover by Maria Poulopoulos and Sarah J. Slattery

First Printing—April 2023

The Latin text in this book is taken from Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem, edited by Robert Weber, Fifth Revised Edition edited by Roger Gryson, © 2007 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022947454

Contents

Preface

Keep Up Your Biblical Latin in Two Minutes a Day

Index of Scripture References

Preface

Keep Up Your Biblical Latin in Two Minutes a Day has been specially designed to help you build on your previous study of Latin by reading a small excerpt from the Vulgate in its original language every day in an easy, manageable, and spiritually enriching way. This book does not do away with the need to consult traditional textbooks and to review paradigms and the fundamentals of Latin grammar, which are essential tasks for developing an enduring ability to read and understand Latin well. Rather, this book complements such grammatical study by enabling you to build a robust vocabulary base and by encouraging you to work with text from the Latin translation of the Bible and review morphology and syntax in a largely inductive manner.

In order to help you reconnect with Latin in a direct and efficient way, this book contains no grammatical jargon or extraneous material—only verses from the Vulgate, in Latin and English, carefully selected and presented (along with brief vocabulary entries) in a manner intended to facilitate rapid and enjoyable learning. The book is designed to be used on a daily basis, or in any case with some measure of consistency. The page for each day includes the following:

• one new vocabulary word, accompanied by glosses and a reminder of which syllable in the word is accented, and two review words from earlier in the book

• an English translation of one or more verses (or a partial verse or verses) from the Vulgate, with these three Latin words embedded in it/them, as they appear in the verse(s)

• the Latin text of the verse(s), in full and then divided into phrases or clauses, with the corresponding English phrases or clauses next to them

To encourage you to spend a little time with Latin on a regular basis, each page is labeled with a day number (from 1 to 365), a date ...