Josef Lössl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1482313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josef Lössl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josef |
| FAMILY NAME | Lössl |
| SIGNATURE | LÖSSL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5829-6500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Writings
The Exodus story ranks among the most influential narratives of the biblical tradition. As Israel's foundational story of origin, it has shaped Jewish identity in profound ways, while also exerting major influence on Christianity and Islam. The contributors to this volume trace the diverse strategies by which interpretive communities have appropriated the Exodus for their own identity-formation, theological reflection, and social orientation. Whi…
Ancient Christianities
Den Menschen dem Menschen erklären
The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity
The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms of devotion to Jesus Christ, multiple phenomena, an…
Die Trostschriften des Ambrosius von Mailand, written by Florian Durner
This excellent monograph, originally a PhD thesis submitted at the Theological Faculty of the University of Jena in 2019, deals with three intersecting areas of study.Firstly, it enters into the discourse on Christian Latin consolation, which was magisterially staked out as long ago as 1937 by Charles Favez in his La consolation latine chrétienne.For Favez, only Jerome plays a more important role in that discourse than Ambrose, whose literary con…
Celsus in His World
Studia Patristica. Vol. CII - Including Papers Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018
This book chapter traces the 'motif' of 'the barbarian' (βάρβαρος, βαρβαρικός) in Tatian's 'Oratio ad Graecos', a second century Greek Christian apology and polemic against traditional ('pagan') Greek culture. It argues that Tatian uses this motif to distance himself from the conventional Greek way of looking at Greek literary-rhetorical education (παιδεία) as a pinnacle of civilisation. As a Syrian and a Christian he deliberately styles himself …
A Clash Between Paideia and Pneuma? Ecstatic Women Prophets and Theological Education in the Second-century Church
The second half of the second century saw the development of a more hierarchical institutionalized church and of a theology of the Holy Spirit ( Pneuma ) reflecting this development. A driver of this development was a higher educational level among church leaders and Christians participating in theological discourse. In fact, ‘higher education’ ( paideia ) became a guiding value of Christian living, including for the study and interpretation of S…
Between Hipparchian Cynicism and Priscillian Montanism
Tatian’s Oration to the Greeks ( or. ) contains a list of twelve ancient Greek philosophers whom Tatian berates for their arrogant stupidity ( or. 2.1-3.7). In this list can be found a brief note ( or. 3.6) in which Tatian singles out the Cynic Crates of Thebes (ca. 368/5-ca. 288/5 BC ) and asks who would want to be a witness at his “dog-marriage” (κυνογαμία) or not reject the arrogant “tongue-madness” (γλωσσομανία) “of people like him” rather th…
Commentaries
This chapter offers an introduction to the origins, main characteristics, and some main representatives of the early Christian biblical commentary. It outlines the emergence of the biblical and Late Antique philosophical commentary from the context of the late Hellenistic and early post-Hellenistic study of grammar and rhetoric (e.g. in Homeric scholarship), and discusses the role of Origen of Alexandria as the main theorist and practitioner of t…
A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity
This companion offers a comprehensive survey to religion in Late Antiquity. It deals with questions on the origin and development of religions and their role in the cultural, political and social transformations of the period. It is divided into three parts: 1. Historical and Geographical Approaches, 2. Traditions and Identities, 3. Themes and Issues. Each chapter is written by a specialist on the relevant topic and comes with a self-contained li…
Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity
Augustine in Context
Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity
An Inextinguishable Memory
This essay focuses on the engagement of early Christian literature with ‘other religions’ and with the construction of a classical, pagan tradition as a cultural and religious other for the purpose of shaping a Christian identity. The contention is that by doing so early Christian literature created and preserved, whether intentionally or not, a distinct and in the long run inextinguishable memory of a classical pagan past as an essential part of…
Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity
Contents: Introduction, Josef LAssl and John Watt Part 1 Alexandria to Rome: Origen: exegesis and philosophy in early Christian Alexandria, Alfons FA1/4rst Prologue topics and translation problems in Latin commentaries on Paul, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe Ambrosiaster's method of interpretation in the Questions on the Old and New Testament, Marie-Pierre Bussieres Philosophical exegesis in Marius Victorinus' Commentaries on Paul, Stephen Cooper Jerome's…
Jerome of Stridon
his book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian antiquity, Jerome of Stridon (c.346-420) traditionally known as "Saint Jerome." It is divided into three sections which explore topics such as the underlying motivations behind Jerome's work as a hagiographer, letter-writer, theological controversialist, translator and exegete…
Sallust in Julian of Aeclanum
The importance of Cicero in the debate between Augustine of Hippo and Julian of Aeclanum has been extensively studied. This includes Augustine's and Julian's use of the Catilinarian speeches in their polemics against each other. In comparison the use of Sallust, the other classical authority on Catiline, especially by Julian of Aeclanum, has been neglected. This paper intends to remedy that situation. Textual evidence may be meagre: barely two li…
Hieronymus Und Epiphanius Von Salamis Über Das Judentum Ihrer Zeit
Compared to other Christian authors of the late 4th, early 5th century A.D. Jerome and Epiphanius of Salamis frequently write about Jews and Judaism. And they do so in a historical and biographical context which they largely share. Their frequent use of anti-Jewish polemics, however, has earned them a certain notoriety. But, as is argued in this paper, while their attitude in this respect is, of course, deplorable, it may be less a sign of their …
Augustine in Byzantium
As Cornelius Mayer wrote recently, the massive output of literature on Augustine ( c . 50,000 extant titles) cannot hide the fact that ‘much scholarly work remains to be done on the enormous variety and scope of Augustine's influence ’. One area of which this is particularly true is Augustine's impact on Byzantine theology. While Augustine's own use of Greek patristic literature and contacts with the Greek patristic world have been investigated f…
Satire, Fiction and Reference to Reality in Jerome's "Epistula" 117
Satire, Fiction and Reference To Reality in Jerome's Epistuia 117
Satire is essentially a non-fictional literary form. Its point of departure is a real setting, which is directly referred to. But the way satirists magnify certain aspects of the reality they refer to distorts their picture.' Satires therefore are not realistic in the sense of providing reliable eye witness accounts of given situations. But they usually keep to rules, which provide hermeneutical keys for interpreting them with regard to the reali…
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Satire, Fiction and Reference to Reality in Jerome's "Epistula" 117
Satire, Fiction and Reference To Reality in Jerome's Epistuia 117
Satire is essentially a non-fictional literary form. Its point of departure is a real setting, which is directly referred to. But the way satirists magnify certain aspects of the reality they refer to distorts their picture.' Satires therefore are not realistic in the sense of providing reliable eye witness accounts of given situations. But they usually keep to rules, which provide hermeneutical keys for interpreting them with regard to the reali…
Augustine in Byzantium
As Cornelius Mayer wrote recently, the massive output of literature on Augustine ( c . 50,000 extant titles) cannot hide the fact that ‘much scholarly work remains to be done on the enormous variety and scope of Augustine's influence ’. One area of which this is particularly true is Augustine's impact on Byzantine theology. While Augustine's own use of Greek patristic literature and contacts with the Greek patristic world have been investigated f…
Hieronymus Und Epiphanius Von Salamis Über Das Judentum Ihrer Zeit
Compared to other Christian authors of the late 4th, early 5th century A.D. Jerome and Epiphanius of Salamis frequently write about Jews and Judaism. And they do so in a historical and biographical context which they largely share. Their frequent use of anti-Jewish polemics, however, has earned them a certain notoriety. But, as is argued in this paper, while their attitude in this respect is, of course, deplorable, it may be less a sign of their …
Sallust in Julian of Aeclanum
The importance of Cicero in the debate between Augustine of Hippo and Julian of Aeclanum has been extensively studied. This includes Augustine's and Julian's use of the Catilinarian speeches in their polemics against each other. In comparison the use of Sallust, the other classical authority on Catiline, especially by Julian of Aeclanum, has been neglected. This paper intends to remedy that situation. Textual evidence may be meagre: barely two li…
Jerome of Stridon
his book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian antiquity, Jerome of Stridon (c.346-420) traditionally known as "Saint Jerome." It is divided into three sections which explore topics such as the underlying motivations behind Jerome's work as a hagiographer, letter-writer, theological controversialist, translator and exegete…
Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity
Contents: Introduction, Josef LAssl and John Watt Part 1 Alexandria to Rome: Origen: exegesis and philosophy in early Christian Alexandria, Alfons FA1/4rst Prologue topics and translation problems in Latin commentaries on Paul, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe Ambrosiaster's method of interpretation in the Questions on the Old and New Testament, Marie-Pierre Bussieres Philosophical exegesis in Marius Victorinus' Commentaries on Paul, Stephen Cooper Jerome's…
An Inextinguishable Memory
This essay focuses on the engagement of early Christian literature with ‘other religions’ and with the construction of a classical, pagan tradition as a cultural and religious other for the purpose of shaping a Christian identity. The contention is that by doing so early Christian literature created and preserved, whether intentionally or not, a distinct and in the long run inextinguishable memory of a classical pagan past as an essential part of…
Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity
Augustine in Context
A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity
This companion offers a comprehensive survey to religion in Late Antiquity. It deals with questions on the origin and development of religions and their role in the cultural, political and social transformations of the period. It is divided into three parts: 1. Historical and Geographical Approaches, 2. Traditions and Identities, 3. Themes and Issues. Each chapter is written by a specialist on the relevant topic and comes with a self-contained li…
Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity
Commentaries
This chapter offers an introduction to the origins, main characteristics, and some main representatives of the early Christian biblical commentary. It outlines the emergence of the biblical and Late Antique philosophical commentary from the context of the late Hellenistic and early post-Hellenistic study of grammar and rhetoric (e.g. in Homeric scholarship), and discusses the role of Origen of Alexandria as the main theorist and practitioner of t…
Between Hipparchian Cynicism and Priscillian Montanism
Tatian’s Oration to the Greeks ( or. ) contains a list of twelve ancient Greek philosophers whom Tatian berates for their arrogant stupidity ( or. 2.1-3.7). In this list can be found a brief note ( or. 3.6) in which Tatian singles out the Cynic Crates of Thebes (ca. 368/5-ca. 288/5 BC ) and asks who would want to be a witness at his “dog-marriage” (κυνογαμία) or not reject the arrogant “tongue-madness” (γλωσσομανία) “of people like him” rather th…
Celsus in His World
Studia Patristica. Vol. CII - Including Papers Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018
This book chapter traces the 'motif' of 'the barbarian' (βάρβαρος, βαρβαρικός) in Tatian's 'Oratio ad Graecos', a second century Greek Christian apology and polemic against traditional ('pagan') Greek culture. It argues that Tatian uses this motif to distance himself from the conventional Greek way of looking at Greek literary-rhetorical education (παιδεία) as a pinnacle of civilisation. As a Syrian and a Christian he deliberately styles himself …
A Clash Between Paideia and Pneuma? Ecstatic Women Prophets and Theological Education in the Second-century Church
The second half of the second century saw the development of a more hierarchical institutionalized church and of a theology of the Holy Spirit ( Pneuma ) reflecting this development. A driver of this development was a higher educational level among church leaders and Christians participating in theological discourse. In fact, ‘higher education’ ( paideia ) became a guiding value of Christian living, including for the study and interpretation of S…
The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity
The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms of devotion to Jesus Christ, multiple phenomena, an…
Die Trostschriften des Ambrosius von Mailand, written by Florian Durner
This excellent monograph, originally a PhD thesis submitted at the Theological Faculty of the University of Jena in 2019, deals with three intersecting areas of study.Firstly, it enters into the discourse on Christian Latin consolation, which was magisterially staked out as long ago as 1937 by Charles Favez in his La consolation latine chrétienne.For Favez, only Jerome plays a more important role in that discourse than Ambrose, whose literary con…
Ancient Christianities
Den Menschen dem Menschen erklären
The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Writings
The Exodus story ranks among the most influential narratives of the biblical tradition. As Israel's foundational story of origin, it has shaped Jewish identity in profound ways, while also exerting major influence on Christianity and Islam. The contributors to this volume trace the diverse strategies by which interpretive communities have appropriated the Exodus for their own identity-formation, theological reflection, and social orientation. Whi…
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