The Literal Meaning of Genesis

De Genesi ad litteram

Written 401 to 415, probably in Hippo Regius (now Annaba, Algeria). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Twelve books on what the first three chapters of Genesis say in the plain sense.

Commentary · first written in Latin · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Retractations 2.24 (Retractations (it lists his books in the order he wrote them); Fitzgerald (ed.), Augustine through the Ages (1999))
Place written probable: Augustine was priest (391) and bishop (395 or 396 to 430) at Hippo and wrote there (Possidius, Life of Augustine; Brown, Augustine of Hippo, 2000)