A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin

click here for more details, find new or used items	John F. Collins Our price £13.25 (£14.50) New from £11.91 Used from £16.01 Pages: 451 (Paperback) ISBN: 0813206677 Pub: The Catholic University of America Press Pub date: 1992-12-31 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 68125

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An exemplary textbook (12/12 people found this helpful)

I have worked through several introductory Latin textbooks. None prepared me adequately to encounter real Latin. Collins, however, makes use of substantial extracts from the Vulgate at a relatively early stage, so that having completed the readings and exercises the student can begin reading the Latin New Testament straight away. The grammatical explanations are clear and concise, and the book comes with a very useful anthology and dictionary at the end. If you want to read Church Latin, you can't do better than Collins.

An excellent text book and teaching resource. (32/32 people found this helpful)

Those learning or teaching Latin for ecclesiastical usage are very quickly faced with the problem that most text books are intended to teach *classical* and military Latin, usually preparing introductory students to first read the works of Julius Caesar and then of the other classic writers. If this course if followed, it is then necessary to acquire later a new set of vocabulary, modes of expression, and pronunciation rules when one finally deals with ecclesiatical texts.

Collins' well written and organized book short-circuits this process, starting the student out immediately with eccliastical vocabulary and usage. I found this book when preparting to teach an informal class in ecclesiastical Latin at my parish, and I fully intend to use it again -- and more extensively -- the next time I do so.

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