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MAT foreign language practice texts

MAT Language Proficiency Test

Reading Samples for St Paul Seminary School of Divinity  

These sample texts for translation practice are in PDF format -- select a reading, enter your UST username (NetId) and password,  and print or download the item.  If you have any problems with this page or the pdf's, be sure to contact Ireland Library: j9malcheski@stthomas.edu, 651-962-5453

To access individual readings, select link, enter UST username (your NetId) and your personal password.



FRENCH READINGS

Congar, Yves.   La Parole et le souffleParis: Desclée, 1983. Login required.

Crouzel, Henri.   OrigèneParis: Pierre Zech Editeur, 1985.  Login required.

Martimort, Aimé Georges.   L'Eglise en prière: introduction à la liturgieNouv. ed.  Paris: Desclée, 1983. Login required.
 


 

GERMAN READINGS

Schnelle, Udo.   Antidoketische Christologie im JohannesevangeliumGöttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987.  Login required.

Balthasar, Hans Urs von.  Das Herz Der WeltZürich: Im Verlag der Arche, 1945. Login required.

Harnack, Adolf.   Militia Christi: Die christliche Religion und der Soldatenstand in den ersten drei JahrhundertenDarmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963. Login required.

Rad, Gerhard von.   Theologie des Alten Testaments. Band 1 & Theologie des Alten Testaments. Band 2.  München: C. Kaiser, 1958-1960.  Login required.
 


 

LATIN READINGS

The Venerable Bede. Vita Sancti Cuthberti.  Life of Cuthbert, Book 1.

Benedict of Nursia.   Regula.  Rule.

Augustinus, Aurelius.   Confessiones. Confessions, Book 9, 33-37.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.  Ad Novatum de Ira, Book 1, Chapter 1.

Tacitus, Corneliusr.   Annales, Book 15, Chapters 44-45.
 


 

SPANISH READINGS

Ellacuría, Ignacio, and Jon Sobrino.  Mysterium Liberationis : conceptos fundamentales de la teología de la liberación. 2 vols. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1990. Login required.

Sobrino, Jon.  Cristología desde América Latina: esbozo a partir del seguimiento del Jesús histórico. México: Centro de Reflexion Teologica, 1976. Login required.

 


j9m Revised May 2009