Lasse Løvlund Toft

Lasse Løvlund Toft is a Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, affiliated with the Faculty of Theology. He is part of the ERC-funded APOCRYPHA project (Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts). His work focuses on Late Antique and Medieval religious and literary texts from Christian and Islamic communities in the Eastern Roman and Islamic worlds.

Dr. Toft holds a PhD in Theology (Church History) from Aarhus University (2022), with a dissertation on the Syriac cults of the Himyarite Martyrs from Najran. He has conducted research at Durham University and the University of Oxford. His current projects include editing the Coptic translation of Athanasius’ 39th Festal Letter and studying Coptic-Arabic apocryphal traditions about the Creation of Man.

His research interests span Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic textual traditions, with emphases on hagiography, historiography, and exegetical literature. He explores theological diversity and cross-cultural receptions in Coptic and Islamic contexts.