Questions and Answers on Genesis

Interrogationes et responsiones in Genesin · Alcuin of York · c. 796-804 · commentary

Latin · domain: latin-carolingian-exegesis · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo (2026-11-14) holds the work only within the Migne opera (PL 100) and in Latin manuscript/early-print contexts; no English-language record for it was returned in either the 'Alcuin' English-filtered set or the targeted title query. The Corpus Christianorum in Translation query for Alcuin returns only the unrelated Cambridge Apocalypse gloss. No English translation was located; the question-and-answer form has attracted scholarly paraphrase but no published English version.

A catechetical question-and-answer commentary on Genesis in the manner of Bede's and Augustine's quaestiones, used for teaching the first book of the Bible in Carolingian schools. Because it is the classroom Genesis of the ninth century, its absence in English hides how the Carolingians actually taught the creation narrative.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 1844-1880 printing) patrologiaecur100mign

Source and licence

archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 1844-1880 printing)

patrologiaecur100mign

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Record	Citation
Questions and answers on Genesis · 1851 · eng	"Questions and answers on Genesis." Madras, American mission press, 1851. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990066398380203941
Supplement I. Questions and answers on Genesis Philo, of Alexandria · 1953 · eng	Philo, of Alexandria. "Supplement I. Questions and answers on Genesis." Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990011772910203941
Philo, Supplement 1 : questions and answers on Genesis Philo, of Alexandria · 1953 · eng	Philo, of Alexandria. "Philo, Supplement 1 : questions and answers on Genesis." Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1953. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159878581303941
Both literal and allegorical : studies in Philo of Alexandria's Questions and answers on Genesis and Exodus · 1991 · eng	"Both literal and allegorical : studies in Philo of Alexandria's Questions and answers on Genesis and Exodus." Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1991. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990023616390203941
Philo Philo, of Alexandria · 1929- · grc, eng	Philo, of Alexandria. "Philo." London : William Heinemann, 1929-. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990026500620203941

Record

Citation

Questions and answers on Genesis

· 1851 · eng

"Questions and answers on Genesis." Madras, American mission press, 1851. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990066398380203941

Supplement I. Questions and answers on Genesis

Philo, of Alexandria · 1953 · eng

Philo, of Alexandria. "Supplement I. Questions and answers on Genesis." Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990011772910203941

Philo, Supplement 1 : questions and answers on Genesis

Philo, of Alexandria · 1953 · eng

Philo, of Alexandria. "Philo, Supplement 1 : questions and answers on Genesis." Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1953. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159878581303941

Both literal and allegorical : studies in Philo of Alexandria's Questions and answers on Genesis and Exodus

· 1991 · eng

"Both literal and allegorical : studies in Philo of Alexandria's Questions and answers on Genesis and Exodus." Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1991. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990023616390203941

Philo

Philo, of Alexandria · 1929- · grc, eng

Philo, of Alexandria. "Philo." London : William Heinemann, 1929-. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990026500620203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Questions and Answers on Genesis” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-alcuin-interrogationes-et-responsiones-in-genesin