Skip to main content
ZOEK
MENU
English
Nederlands
Researchers
Projects
Research groups
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal
Home
Researchers
Dr. Benjamin De Vos
Dr. Benjamin De Vos
bmardvos.devos@ugent.be
ResearchGate
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
Tabgroup
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. “’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. “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, pp. 131–77, doi:10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.151444.
De Vos, Benjamin. “‘The Truth Is Rarely Pure and Never Simple’ : Strategies of Truthfulness, Epistemic Authority, and Believability in Late Antique and Early Medieval Christian Narrative.”
To Believe or Not to Believe? Strategies of Truth(Fulness) and Reading Hermeneutics in Premodern Christian Narrative
, edited by Benjamin De Vos, vol. 35, Barkhuis, 2026, pp. 3–32.
De Vos, Benjamin. “Enargeia and the Epistemic Value of Eyewitnesses : A Christian Answer to Epistemological Debates in Early Fourth-Century Syria.”
To Believe or Not to Believe? Strategies of Truth(Fulness) and Reading Hermeneutics in Premodern Christian Narrative
, edited by Benjamin De Vos, vol. 35, Barkhuis, 2026, pp. 91–117.
Full bibliography
Teaching
History of Ancient Philosophy
Judaism