Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti
· Ambrosiaster
· c. 370-384 (the author is dated fl. 366-384 in the CSEL edition)
· treatise
Latin · domain: latin-patristic-fourth-century · 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 for 'Ambrosiaster quaestiones' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ambrosiaster%20quaestiones&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and 'Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Quaestiones%20Veteris%20et%20Novi%20Testamenti&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 show a full Spanish translation and a partial French one, but no English. The Spanish is 'Cuestiones' (Madrid: Ciudad Nueva, 2025, ed. and trans. Agustín López Kindler: record https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160400012303941); the French is the Sources chrétiennes volume 'Contre les païens (Question 114) et Sur le destin (Question 115)' (Paris: Cerf, 2007), which covers two questions out of 127. The same queries return the two English Ambrosiaster volumes that do exist, Bray's 'Commentaries on Romans and 1-2 Corinthians' (IVP, 2009) and 'Commentaries on Galatians-Philemon' (IVP, 2009) — the Pauline commentary, not the Quaestiones. The Latin is CSEL 50 (1908) and PL 35.
The Quaestiones are the largest surviving work of the anonymous Roman cleric whose Pauline commentary was read as Ambrose's for a thousand years, and they are the most direct evidence we have for Latin lay theology at Rome in the 370s-380s: on the creation of Adam, on fate and free will, on the pagan gods, on the interpretation of Genesis, on Jewish practice. Their author is quoted by Augustine and mined by medieval canonists. Because Bray's volumes were taken as 'Ambrosiaster in English', the Quaestiones are routinely overlooked, and English readers have no idea what the rest of the corpus contains.
"The Christian theology reader." Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990148195080203941
"Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in late antiquity : the Alexandrian commentary tradition between Rome and Baghdad." Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990130621450203941