Prof Josef Lössl
Position:Professor of Historical Theology and Intellectual History
Email:LosslJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75499
Fax:+44(0)29 20 754500
Extension:75499
Location:John Percival Building, Room 5.28
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75499
Fax:+44(0)29 20 754500
Extension:75499
Location:John Percival Building, Room 5.28
Research Interests
- Early Christianity
- Greek and Latin Patristics
- History of Biblical and Philosophical Exegesis (commentaries)
- Intellectual History (the 'Platonic Tradition')
- Religion and Violence
- Augustine of Hippo
- Jerome of Stridon
Selected Publications
- 2011. Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity. The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition Between Rome and Baghdad. Farnham: Ashgate.
- 2010. The Early Church. History and Memory. London: Continuum.
- 2009. Jerome of Stridon. His Life, Writings and Legacy. Farnham: Ashgate.
- 2007. Augustinus. De vera religione. Die wahre Religion. Schöningh: Paderborn.
- 2001. Julian von Aeclanum. Studien zu seinem Leben, seinem Werk, seiner Lehre und ihrer Überlieferung. Leiden: Brill.
Research Projects
- Tatian's Ad Graecos: A Second-Century Greek Apology in its Cultural Context
- Patristic Exegesis of Romans 1-3
- Narrative, System and Ritual in Classical and Modern Cosmologies
Research Groups
Teaching
- RT1343 Monotheism from Moses to Freud
- RT4208 The Early Church: History and Memory
- RT3201 Hellenistic Greek I
- RT3202 Hellenistic Greek II
- RT3107 Introduction to New Testament Greek
- RT3108 Further New Testament Greek