Yr Athro Josef Lossl

2025

• Lossl, J. 2025. Julian of Aeclanum as a biblical exegete. In: Dupont, A., Malavasi, G. and Matz, B. eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Pelagian Controversy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 296-314.

2024

• Lossl, J. 2024. Book Review: Zacher, Florian, Marius Victorinus als christlicher Philosoph: Die trinitätstheologischen Schriften des Gaius Marius Victorinus und ihre philosophie-, kirchen- und theologiegeschichtlichen Kontexte. Patristische Texte und Studien 80. Berlin und New York: De Gruyter, 2023. VIII+588 pages. ISBN: 978-3-11-099277-9.. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 18(2), pp. 95-102. (10.18573/jlarc.151)
• Lossl, J. 2024. Trost (Trostschriften). Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum 32, pp. 1084-1110.

2023

• Lossl, J. 2023. Early Christian Involvement in Classcial Education, Literature and Philosophy. In: Longenecker, B. W. and Wilhite, D. E. eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 276-297., (10.1017/9781108620420.016)
• Lossl, J. 2023. Review of Thurner, Die Geburt des Christentums als Religion (2021). Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 16, pp. 50-55. (10.18573/jlarc.138)
• Lossl, J. 2023. Law and the Church Fathers. In: Witte, J. and Domingo, R. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 31-44., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197606759.001.0001)
• Lossl, J. 2023. Paulus in der Theologie des 2. Jahrhunderts: Das Beispiel von Tatians Rede an die Griechen. In: Frey, J., Schröter, J. and Wallraff, M. eds. Paulusmemoria und Paulusexegese. Rom und Protestantismus - Schriften des Melanchthon Zentrums in Rom 5 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 290-314., (10.1628/978-3-16-162240-3)

2022

• Patmore, H. and Lossl, J. 2022. Demons in early Judaism and Christianity: characters and characteristics. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Vol. 113. Leiden: Brill.
• Lossl, J. 2022. Epistolarity, commentary, and profession of faith: reading marius victorinus's fictional exchange with candidus in the context of his conversion. In: Cooper, S. and Nemec, V. eds. The Philosophy, Theology, and Rhetoric of Marius Victorinus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements Vol. 20. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, pp. 237-266.
• Lossl, J. 2022. The demonogony of Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos: Jewish and Greek influences. In: Patmore, H. and Lossl, J. eds. Demons in Early Judaism and Christianity. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Vol. 113. Leiden: Brill, pp. 155-181., (10.1163/9789004518148_009)

2021

• Lossl, J. 2021. Celsus on Christianity - a detractor with a constructive agenda: a response to Loveday Alexander. In: Paget, J. C. and Gathercole, S. eds. Celsus in His World: Philosophy, Polemic, and Religion in the Second Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 288-296., (10.1017/9781108957861)
• Lossl, J. 2021. A clash between Paideia and Pneuma? Ecstatic women prophets and theological education in the Second-Century Church. In: Methuen, C., Ryrie, A. and Spicer, A. eds. Inspiration and Institution in Christian History. Studies in Church History Vol. 57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 32-53., (10.1017/stc.2021.3)
• Lossl, J. 2021. Greek and Barbarian paideia in Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Lossl, J. eds. Studia Patristica. Vol. CII - Including Papers Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018. Peeters, pp. 79-102., (10.2307/j.ctv1q26vjd)
• Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. 2021. Introduction. In: Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. eds. Studia Patristica CII. Papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference 5-7 September 2018. Studia Patristica Vol. 102. Peeters
• Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. eds. 2021. Studia Patristica CII. Including papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018. Peeters.
• Lossl, J. 2021. Marius Victorinus: some observations on his use of commentarial techniques in his 'theological treatises'. In: Verheyden, J. and Nicklas, T. eds. Early Christian Commentators of the New Testament. Leuven: Peeters
• Lossl, J. 2021. Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch, and Irenaeus of Lyons. In: Edwards, M. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy. Abingdon and New Yorl: Routledge, pp. 342-356.

2020

• Lossl, J. 2020. The religious innovator Tatian: a precursor of Mani in Syrian Christianity?. In: Van Oort, J. ed. Manichaeism and Early Christianity: Selected Papers from the 2019 Pretoria Congress., Vol. 99. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-23.
• Lossl, J. 2020. Die verurteilung des origenes und die spätantike kirche des westens: der fall des Pseudoaugustinischen Traktats De incarnatione et deitate Christi ad Ianuarium. In: Fürst, A. ed. Verurteilung des Origenes: Kaiser Justinian und das Konzil von Konstantinopel 553. Adamantiana Vol. 15. Münster: Aschendorff, pp. 149-167.
• Lossl, J. 2020. Christliche rede von Gott im zweiten jahrhundert: Tatians rede an die Griechen. [MP4 Video]. Medienportal Universität Freiburg: Universität Freiburg. Available at: https://videoportal.uni-freiburg.de/video/Christliche-Rede-von-Gott-im-zweiten-Jahrhundert/0b8b44d40eda4adc6cbb292cf980084c
• Lossl, J. 2020. Augustine and the common good. In: Domingo, R. and Witte, J. eds. Christianity and Global Law: An Introduction. Law and Christianity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 31-50.
• Lossl, J. 2020. Augustine and Julian of Aeclanum on human dignity. In: Dupont, A., François, W. and Leemans, J. eds. 'Nos sumus tempora'. Studies on Augustine and his Reception Offered to M. Lamberigts. Peeters, Leuven, pp. 171-188.
• Lossl, J. 2020. Between Hipparchian Cynicism and Priscillian Montanism: some notes on Tatian, or. 3.6. Vigiliae Christianae 75(1), pp. 84-107. (10.1163/15700720-12341420)

2019

• Lossl, J. 2019. Imperial involvement in education and theology: Constantine to Constantius II. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 13, pp. 22-41. (10.18573/jlarc.114)
• Lossl, J. 2019. The pre-Christian concept of human dignity in Greek and Roman antiquity. In: Loughlin, J. ed. Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Orthodox Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 37-56.
• Lossl, J. 2019. Commentaries. In: Blowers, P. and Martens, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation. Oxford Handbooks Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 171-186.

2018

• Lossl, J. 2018. Die Motive Reden, Schweigen und Hören als Mittel brieflicher Kommunikation. In: Bauer, T. J. and Möllendorff, P. v. eds. Die Briefe des Ignatios von Antiochia: Motive, Strategien, Kontexte. Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies Vol. 72. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 69-92.
• Lossl, J. 2018. Religion in the Hellenistic and early post-Hellenistic era. In: Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. eds. A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley, pp. 33-60.
• Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. J. eds. 2018. A companion to religion in Late Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester: Wiley. (10.1002/9781118968130)
• Lossl, J. 2018. Latin Christian Literature I (polemical and theological writings). In: Toom, T. ed. Augustine in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 94-101., (10.1017/9781316488409)

2017

• Lossl, J. 2017. Origenis Vita. Beobachtungen zur Biographie des Origenes in den Origeniana Pierre-Daniel Huets. In: Fürst, A. ed. Origenes in Frankreich. Die Origeniana Pierre Daniel Huets. Adamantiana Vol. 10. Münster: Aschendorff, pp. 91-113.

2016

• Lössl, J. 2016. Theology as academic discourse in Greco-Roman Late Antiquity. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 10, pp. 38-72. (10.18573/j.2016.10116)
• Lossl, J. 2016. Date and location of Tatian's 'Ad Graecos': some old and new thoughts. In: Vincent, M. and Brent, A. eds. Studia Patristica: Vol. LXXIV - Including Papers presented at the Fifth British Patristics Conference, London, 3-5 September 2014. Studia Patristica Vol. 74. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 43-56.

2015

• Lossl, J. 2015. Amt als Lehramt: Kirche und Schule im zweiten Jahrhundert. Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie 137(3-4), pp. 366-384.

2014

• Lossl, J. 2014. An inextinguishable memory: 'Pagan' past and presence in early Christian writing. In: Harrison, C., Humfress, C. and Sandwell, I. eds. Being Christian in Late Antiquity: A Festschrift for Gillian Clark., Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 74-89.

2013

• Lossl, J. 2013. Augustine on "The True Religion": reflections of Manichaeism in "De vera religione". In: Van Oort, J. ed. Augustine and Manichaean Christianity. Selected Papers from the First South African Conference on Augustine of Hippo, University of Pretoria, 24-26 April 2012. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Vol. 83. Leiden: Brill, pp. 137-153., (10.1163/9789004255067_009)
• Lossl, J. 2013. Intellect and grace in Augustine of Hippo. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 7, pp. 15-25. (10.18573/j.2013.10315)
• Lossl, J. 2013. George Rusts Darstellung der Geschichte des ersten Origenismusstreits im "Letter of Resolution". In: Fürst, A. and Hengstermann, C. eds. Die "Cambridge Origenists". Georg Rusts "Letter of Resolution Concerning Origen and the Chief of His Opinions". Adamantiana Vol. 4. Münster: Aschendorff, pp. 59-83.
• Lossl, J. 2013. Stephen R. L. Clark, Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy. An Introduction (London: Bloomsbury, 2013; xiv+245 pp. ISBN: 9781441123596. £16.99 (P). / Jörg Trelenberg, Tatianos. Oratio ad Graecos. Rede an die Griechen (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012); x + 308 pp. [book reviews]. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 7, pp. 101-110. (10.18573/j.2013.10320)
• Lossl, J. 2013. Profaning and proscribing: Escalating rhetorical violence in fourth century Christian apologetic. In: Quiroga Puertas, A. J. ed. The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum Vol. 72. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 71-87.
• Lossl, J. 2013. Continuity and transformation of ancient consolation in Augustine of Hippo. In: Baltussen, H. ed. Greek and Roman Consolations. Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 153-175.

2012

• Lossl, J. 2012. Sprachlich-ästhetische Darstellung und "Anwendung" von Gewalt in Texten frühchristlicher Apologeten - das Beispiel der Rede Tatians an die Griechen. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 20(2), pp. 196-222. (10.1515/zfr-2012-0008)
• Lossl, J. 2012. Julian's "Consolation to Himself on the Departure of the Excellent Salutius": Rhetoric and philosophy in the Fourth Century. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. eds. Emperor and Author. The Writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. 61-74.
• Lossl, J. 2012. Gotteslehre und Christologie in Anne Conway's "Principia Philosophiae": Frühchristlich-Patristische Einflüsse und Merkmale. In: Hengstermann, C. and Weichert, U. eds. Anne Conway's "Principia Philosophiae". Materialismuskritik und Alleinheits-Spekulation im neuzeitlichen England. PONTES. Philosophisch-theologische Brückenschläge Vol. 52. Münster: LIT, pp. 109-122.
• Lossl, J. 2012. Augustine's use of Aristotle's categories in 'De Trinitate' in light of the history of the Latin text of the categories before Boethius. In: Bermon, E. and O'Daly, G. J. P. eds. Le De Trinitate de saint Augustin: exégèse, logique et noétique. Actes du colloque international de Bordeaux, 16-19 juin 2010. Paris: Institut D'études Augustiniennes, pp. 107-129.

2011

• Lössl, J. and Watt, J. W. eds. 2011. Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in late antiquity: The Alexandrian commentary tradition between Rome and Bagdhad. Farnham: Ashgate.
• Lössl, J. 2011. The Bible and Aristotle in the controversy between Augustine and Julian of Aeclanum. In: Lössl, J. and Watt, J. W. eds. Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity: The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Bagdhad. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 111-120.

2010

• Lössl, J. 2010. The early church: History and memory. London: Continuum/ T&T Clark International.
• Lössl, J. 2010. Pauline exegesis in Patristic commentaries of Old Testament Prophets: the example of Julian of Aeclanum's Tractatus in Amos. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 4, pp. 1-27. (10.18573/j.2010.10301)
• Lossl, J. 2010. Zwischen Christologie und Rhetorik. Zum Ausdruck "Kraft des Wortes" in Tatians "Rede an die Griechen". In: Prostmeier, F. R. and Lona, H. E. eds. Logos der Vernunft, Logos des Glaubens. Millennium-Studies Vol. 31. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 129-147.
• Lossl, J. 2010. Augustine's Confessions as a Consolation of Philosophy. In: Berg, J. v. d. et al. eds. 'In Search of Truth': Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism. Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Vol. 74. Leiden: Brill, pp. 47-73.
• Lössl, J. 2010. Intellektualistischer Voluntarismus - Der Willensbegriff Augustins von Hippo. In: Müller, J. and Hofmeister Pich, R. eds. Wille und Handlung in der Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Vol. 287. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 301-330., (10.1515/9783110221329.301)

2009

• Cain, A. and Lossl, J. eds. 2009. Jerome of Stridon: His life, writings, and legacy. Farnham: Ashgate.

2008

• Lossl, J. 2008. Augustinus-Lexikon, Vol. 3, Fasc. 1 / 2, Figura(e) – Hieronymus, ed. C. Mayer, Basel: Schwabe, 2004. ISBN: 3796520499; xii + 320 cols. Augustinus-Lexikon, Vol. 3, Fasc. 3 / 4, Hieronymus – Institutio, institutum, ed. C. Mayer, Basel: Schwabe, 2006; ISBN-10: 3796521452; cols. 321-640. [book review]. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 2, pp. 44-46. (10.18573/j.2008.10296)
• Lossl, J. 2008. Palamite soteriology in Augustinian dress? Observations on Prochoros Kydones' writings and translations of works of Augustine. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 2, pp. 33-43. (10.18573/j.2008.10295)

2007

• Lössl, J. 2007. Augustinus, De vera religione / Über die wahre Religion. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Schöningh.
• Lossl, J. 2007. Poets, prophets, critics, and exegetes in classical and biblical antiquity and Early Christianity. Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 1, pp. 1-16. (10.18573/j.2007.10290)

2004

• Lössl, J. 2004. When is a locust just a locust? Patristic exegesis of Joel 1:4 in the light of ancient literary theory. The Journal of Theological Studies 55(2), pp. 575-599. (10.1093/jts/55.2.575)

2002

• Lössl, J. 2002. Julian of Aeclanum on pain. Journal of Early Christian Studies 10(2), pp. 203-243. (10.1353/earl.2002.0022)

2001

• Lössl, J. 2001. Julian von Aeclanum. Studien zu seinem leben, seinem werk, seiner lehre und ihrer Überlieferung. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae : Texts and Studies of early Christian Life and Language Vol. 60. Berlin: Brill.