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Dr. Benjamin De Vos
Dr. Benjamin De Vos
bmardvos.devos@ugent.be
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Academia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9889-4414
Department
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences
Research group(s)
CSCT - Centrum voor de Studie van Christelijke Tradities
GCLA - Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity
GIKS - Ghent Institute of Classical Studies
HICO - Centrum voor Geschiedenis van de Filosofie en Continentale Filosofie
Other institution(s)
Department of Philosophy - University of Antwerp
AELAC - Association pour l'Étude de la Littérature Apocryphe Chrétienne
Babel - Belgische Associatie voor de studie van religies
SBL - Society of Biblical Literature
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Projects
Projects as postdoc
Platonic myth in the works of christian philosophers and neoplatonic commentators (3rd-6th centuries)
(
2022
-
2025
)
Projects as PhD researcher
Reception of sophistic and platonic philosophy in the pseudo-clementine literature
(
2016
-
2022
)
Publications
Most recent publications
De Vos, Benjamin. “’Making a Scene’ : Staging Philosophical Drama, Strategies of Truth-Telling, and the Morality of the Emotional Sublime in Recognitions VIII-X.”
Masks, Mimes, Miracles … and Mysteries : Retelling and Performing Sacred Stories in Late Antiquity
, edited by Jan Bremmer et al., Groningen University Press, 2026.
De Vos, Benjamin. “The Pseudo-Clementine Lives of Eminent (and Less-Eminent) Philosophers, Sophists, and Physicians : Christian Paideia and Fictionalising Networks in the Late Ancient Novel.”
Networking through Biography : Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
, edited by Arjan Post et al., vol. 19, Brepols, 2026, doi:10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.151444.
De Vos, Benjamin. “’Inmortalitatis Cupido’ : (Anti-)Platonic Perspectives on the Soul in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions.”
STUDIA PATRISTICA
, 2026.
De Vos, Benjamin. “Truth as Performance in Public Space in Fourth-Century Syrian Christian Apocryphal Narrative : Conflicting Dynamics of Truth-Telling, Parrhēsia, and Open Confession.”
REFORMÁTUS SZEMLE = REFORMED REVIEW
, 2026.
De Vos, Benjamin, editor.
To Believe or Not to Believe? Strategies of Truth-Telling and Reading Hermeneutics in Early and Medieval Christian Narratives
. Groningen University Press, 2026.
Full bibliography
Teaching
History of Ancient Philosophy
Judaism