Research Guides: Ecclesiastical Latin: Sacred Scripture

Sacred Scripture

Reading Scripture – especially familiar portions like the Gospels or the Psalms – is a useful way of developing one's vocabulary.

Nova Vulgata Bibliorum sacrorum editio.
Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1979.
The complete text of the Vulgate as revised by order of Pope Paul VI and promulgated by Pope Saint John Paul II.
The Navarre Bible.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, NY: Scepter Publishers, 2008.
The Latin text of the Nova Vulgata, the English text of the Revised Standard Version, and an English commentary. Each volume is classified separately.
A Vulgate Old Testament Reader.
Scott E. Goins.
Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2005.
Selected passages with vocabulary notes.
The Vulgate Bible, Douay-Rheims Translation.
Edited by Swift Edgar.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 3 volumes in 4.
The Douay-Rheims English translation with a reconstruction of the Latin text from which it was translated.
The Psalms: A Prayer Book.
New York: Benziger, 1945.
A handy edition of the Psalms in Latin with side-by-side English translation.
Vulgate on CD.
Clearwater, FL.: Editiones Familiae Sancti Hieronymi, 1989.
Audio-CDs of the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, the version of the Latin Bible most commonly used from the 16th century until the publication of the Nova Vulgata in 1979.