Questions to Thalassius

Quaestiones ad Thalassium

Written about 630 to 634, perhaps in Carthago (now Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Sixty-five answers to hard passages of Scripture.

Treatise · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Jankowiak and Booth, "A New Date-List of the Works of Maximus the Confessor" (2015); Sherwood (1952)
Place written not sure: Written in North Africa, where he lived from about 630; the town is not stated, and Carthage is the usual guess (Louth, Maximus the Confessor, 1996)